Occurrence of summertime convective precipitation and mesoscale convective systems in Finland during 2000-01

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 362-373

  Punkka, Ari Juhani ^a   Bister, Marja ^b  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; HEATING; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; MODULATION; REFLECTION; STATISTICS;

HIGH LATITUDE REGIONS; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS (MCS);

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SUMMER;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; WORLD;

EID: 14644389454     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-2854.1     Document Type: Review

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