Depiction of upper-level precursors of the December 1999 storms from TOVS observatiions

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 417-430

  Fourrié, Nadia ^a   Claud, Chantal ^b   Chédin, Alain ^b  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGY; SATELLITES; STORMS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEVERE WEATHER; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TOVS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EUROPE;

EID: 0043123443     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2003)18<417:DOULPO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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