Airborne Doppler observations of a cold front in the vicinity of Vancouver Island

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 130, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2692-2708

  Yu, Cheng Ku ^a   Bond, Nicholas A ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER RADAR; GRAVITY WAVES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STORMS; VORTEX FLOW;

AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS;

METEOROLOGY;

COLD FRONT; DOPPLER RADAR; EKMAN PUMPING; UPDRAFT;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; VANCOUVER ISLAND;

EID: 0036853556     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2002)130<2692:ADOOAC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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