Long-lived mesoconvective vortices and their environment. Part II: Induced thermodynamic destabilization in idealized simulations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 3396-3412

  Trier, S B ^a   Davis, C A ^a   Skamarock, W C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLONE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; STABILITY ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE; VORTEX;

EID: 0033647065     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<3396:LLMVAT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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