The hurricane-like Mediterranean cyclone of January 1995

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 261-279

  Pytharoulis, Ioannis ^a   Craig, George C ^a   Ballard, Susan P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HURRICANES; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW;

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; BAROCLINIC ZONES; HURRICANE-LIKE VORTICES; LIMITED AREA MODELS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SENSIBLE AND LATENT HEAT FLUXES; STRONG CONVECTIONS;

STORMS;

BAROCLINIC MOTION; HURRICANE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MOISTURE FLUX; POLAR FRONT; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTEX FLOW;

GREECE; ITALY; SICILY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0041411827     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482700001511     Document Type: Article

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