Variations associated with cores and gaps of a pacific narrow cold frontal rainband

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2705-2729

  Jorgensen, David P ^a   Pu, Zhaoxia ^b,c   Persson, P Ola G ^d   Tao, Wei Kuo ^c  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONES; HYDRODYNAMICS; RAIN; VORTEX FLOW;

RAINBANDS;

ATMOSPHERICS;

AIRBORNE SENSING; COLD FRONT; DOPPLER RADAR; FRONTOGENESIS; RAINBAND; UPDRAFT;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0346121741     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<2705:VAWCAG>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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