Cloud-top evolution of tropical oceanic squall lines from radar reflectivity and infrared satellite data

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2951-2976

  Rickenbach, Thomas M ^a,b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADAR IMAGERY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SQUALL LINE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0033509696     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<2951:CTEOTO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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