Air motions and precipitation growth in Alpine storms

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 129, Issue 588 PART B (MAP), 2003, Pages 345-371

  Medina, Socorro ^a   Houze Jr , Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Mesoscale Alpine Programme; Microphysics; Orographic precipitation; Polarimetric Radar

Indexed keywords

AIR; CLIMATOLOGY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; FLOW PATTERNS; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STORMS; THERMODYNAMICS; WIND;

BAROCLINIC TROUGH;

METEOROLOGY;

AIRFLOW; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

ITALY; LAKE MAGGIORE; LOMBARDY;

EID: 0037249382     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.02.13     Document Type: Article

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