Frontal interaction with mesoscale topography

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 3544-3559

  Dickinson, Michael J ^a   Knight, David J ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL WAVES; METEOROLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BAROCLINIC WAVE; FRONT; FRONTOGENESIS; MESOSCALE TOPOGRAPHY; MOUNTAINS; SURFACE FRONTS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

FRONTAL FEATURE; MODELING; TOPOGRAPHY; VORTICITY;

EID: 0033569072     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<3544:FIWMT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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