Three late summer/early autumn cases of tropical-extratropical interactions causing precipitation in Northwest Africa

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 116-135

  Knippertz, Peter ^a   Fink, Andreas H ^a   Reiner, Andreas ^a   Speth, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN;

CLOUD CLUSTERS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WATER VAPOR;

AFRICA; ATLAS MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0042304101     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<0116:TLSEAC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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