The large-scale environments of the global populations of mesoscale convective complexes

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 8 PART 1, 2000, Pages 2756-2776

  Laing, A G ^a   Fritsch, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BAROCLINIC ATMOSPHERE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0033754491     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<2756:tlseot>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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