Potential vorticity diagnostics of a Mei-Yu front case

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2680-2696

  Chen, George Tai Jen ^a   Wang, Chung Chieh ^b   Liu, Stefano Chih Shin ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b JINWEN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; CLOUDS; VORTEX FLOW;

FRONTAL VORTICITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; FRONTOGENESIS; LATENT HEAT FLUX; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; VORTICITY; WIND FIELD;

CHINA;

EID: 0346752403     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<2680:PVDOAM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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