Synoptic and mesoscale study of a severe convective outbreak with the nonhydrostatic Global Environmental Multiscale (GEM) model

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 31-53

  Erfani, A ^a   Goodson, R ^a   Belair S ^a   Methot A ^a   Yeh, K S ^b   Cote J ^a   Moffet, R ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING METHOD; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SUPERCELL; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TORNADO; TRAJECTORY;

CANADA;

EID: 0345329913     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-001-0585-8     Document Type: Article

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