The effect of latent heat release on the evolution of a warm occluded thermal structure

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 578-599

  Posselt, Derek J ^a   Martin, Jonathan E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STORMS; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; TROPOSPHERE;

HEAT RELEASE; LATENT HEAT; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; LATENT HEAT FLUX; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 1542435941     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<0578:TEOLHR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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