Wavelet analysis of simulated tropical convective cloud systems. Part II: Decompositio of convective-scale and mesoscalestructure

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 868-876

  Yano, Jun Ichi ^a,c   Moncrieff, Mitchell W ^b   Wu, Xiaoqing ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; TROPICS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; WIND EFFECTS;

MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS;

CLOUDS;

CONVECTIVE CLOUD; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WIND PROFILE;

EID: 0035870796     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2001)058<0868:WAOSTC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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