A diagnostic study of cold-air outbreaks over South America

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 3-24

  Vera, Carolina S ^a,b   Vigliarolo, Paula K ^a  

^a Centro de Investigacion del Mar y la Atmosfera   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLD AIR; FRONTAL FEATURE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0034105060     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<0003:ADSOCA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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