A scale-discriminating vorticity budget for a mesoscale vortex in a midlatitude, continental mesoscale convective system

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 781-794

  Knievel, Jason C ^a,b   Johnson, Richard H ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and School of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; WIND;

MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS (MCS); VORTICITY;

VORTEX FLOW;

CONVECTION; VORTICITY; WIND;

CONVECTION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; VORTICITY; WIND FIELD;

KANSAS; NORTH AMERICA; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1642301487     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2003)060<0781:ASDVBF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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