Effects of cloud diabatic heating on the early development of the FASTEX IOP17 cyclone

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 125, Issue 561, 1999, Pages 3439-3467

  Mallet, Isabelle ^b   Cammas, Jean Pierre ^b   Mascart, Patrick ^a   Bechtold, Peter ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cloud diabatic heating; FASTEX; Frontal cyclone; Mesoscale model; Outflow jet; Potential vorticity; Wave CISK

Indexed keywords

CLOUD; CYCLONE; DIABATIC PROCESS; FASTEX; FRONTAL FEATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033497911     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.56114     Document Type: Article

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