Initiation of a mesoscale convective complex over the Ethiopian Highlands preceding the genesis of Hurricane Alberto (2000)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Hill, Christopher M ^a   Lin, Yuh Lang ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE SENSORS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; VORTEX FLOW; HURRICANES; VORTICITY;

TROPICAL DISTURBANCE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CYCLOGENESIS; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE COMPLEXES; MESOSCALE MODEL SIMULATION; MESOVORTEX; RELATIVE VORTICITY; TROPICAL DISTURBANCES; VORTICITY CENTERS;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; HURRICANE; MESOSCALE MOTION; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 0043202698     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016655     Document Type: Article

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