Roll convection within an Arctic cold-air outbreak: Interpretation of in situ aircraft measurements and spaceborne SAR imagery by a three-dimensional atmospheric model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 363-380

  Müller, Gerd ^a   Brümmer, Burghard ^a   Alpers, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARCTIC COLD AIR OUTBREAK; IN SITU AIRCRAFT MEASUREMENTS; ROLL CONVECTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL ATMOSPHERIC MODEL;

WIND;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARCTIC;

EID: 0039256772     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<0363:rcwaac>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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