An extreme cold-air outbreak over the Labrador Sea: Roll vortices and air-sea interaction

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2379-2394

  Renfrew, Ian A ^a,b   Moore, G W K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLOUD COVER; COLD AIR; VORTEX;

LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 0033399187     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<2379:AECAOO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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