Energetics of an intensifying jet streak during the Experiment on Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones over the Atlantic (ERICA)

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2777-2795

  Lackmann, Gary M ^a,c   Keyser, Daniel ^b   Bosart, Lance F ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGETICS; JET; LIFE CYCLE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0033509695     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<2777:EOAIJS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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