Diagnosis of the heavy rain near a Meiyu front using the wet Q vector partitioning method

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 37-44

  Yue, Caijun ^a   Shou, Shaowen ^a   Lin, Kaiping ^a   Yao, Xiuping ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Interaction of different scales; Meiyu front heavy rainfall; Wet Q vector; WetQ vector partitioning

Indexed keywords

FRONTOGENESIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; RAINSTORM;

EID: 0142230468     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03342048     Document Type: Article

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