Modelling study of the IOP2 cold front of the FRONTS 87 experiment

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 297-306

  Kotroni, Vassiliki ^a   Lagouvardos, Konstantinos ^a   Kallos, George ^a   Lemaitre, Yvon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Ctr d'Etud Environnements T   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; FRONTAL SYSTEM; INTENSIVE OBSERVATIONAL PERIODS; LOW LEVEL JET; MODEL RESULTS; MODELLING STUDIES; NONHYDROSTATIC MODEL; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CYCLOGENESIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRONTAL FEATURE; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RAINBAND;

ENGLAND; FRANCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0039016534     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482798001066     Document Type: Article

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