An overview of the field experiment "Winter Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCSs) over the Japan Sea in 2001", and comparisons of the cold-air outbreak case (14 January) between analysis and a non-hydrostatic cloud-resolving model

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1365-1387

  Yoshizaki, Masanori ^a   Kato, Teruyuki ^a   Eito, Hisaki ^a   Hayashi, Syugo ^a   Tao, Wei Kuo ^b  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; COLD AIR; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN; WORLD;

EID: 11244249476     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.2004.1365     Document Type: Article

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