The low-level structure of African easterly waves in 1995

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2266-2280

  Pytharoulis, Ioannis ^a   Thorncroft, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOTION; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; BAROTROPIC INSTABILITY; EASTERLY WAVE;

AFRICA;

EID: 0033383928     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<2266:TLLSOA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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