Reexamining the cold conveyor belt

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 129, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 2205-2225

  Schultz, D M ^a  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TRAJECTORIES; TROPOSPHERE;

CONVEYOR-BELT;

STORMS;

AIR FLOW; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COLD AIR; COLD FRONT; CYCLONE;

EID: 0035442887     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2001)129<2205:RTCCB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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