Orographic effects on a squall line system over Taiwan

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1123-1138

  Teng, Jen Hsin ^a   Chen, Ching Sen ^a   Wang, Tai Chi Chen ^a   Chen, Yi Leng ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; CIRCULATION; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; SQUALL LINE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

TAIWAN;

EID: 0034030189     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<1123:OEOASL>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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