A polar low over the Labrador Sea: Interactions with topography and an upper-level potential vorticity anomaly, and an observation by RADARSAT-1 SAR

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 20-1-20-4

  Moore, G W K ^a   Vachon, P W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; RADAR; STORMS;

MARINE MESOSCALE CYCLONES;

GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CYCLONE; DATA INTERPRETATION; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; POLAR METEOROLOGY; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SATELLITE DATA;

LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 0242432517     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001gl014007     Document Type: Article

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