Surface cyclogenesis from convectively driven amplification of mildlevel mesoscale convective vortices

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 129, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 605-637

  Rogers, R F ^a   Fritsch, J M ^a  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NATURAL CONVECTION; PRESSURE EFFECTS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE VORTICES (MCV);

STORMS;

CONVECTION; CYCLOGENESIS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE; VORTEX;

PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035303275     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2001)129<0605:SCFCDA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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