Overview of the field phase of the Fronts and Atlantic Storm-Track EXperiment (FASTEX) project

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 125, Issue 561, 1999, Pages 3131-3163

  Joly, Alain ^c   Browning, Keith A ^a   Bessemoulin, Pierre ^d   Cammas, Jean Pierre ^d   Caniaux, Guy ^d   Chalon, Jean Pierre ^d   Clough, Sidney A ^d   Dirks, Richard ^d   Emanuel, Kerry A ^d   Eymard, Laurence ^d   Gall, Robert ^d   Hewson, Tim D ^a   Hildebrand, Peter H ^d   Jorgensen, Dave ^d   Lalaurette, François ^d   Langland, Rolf H ^d   Lemaître, Yvon ^d   Mascart, Patrick ^d   Moore, James A ^d   Persson, P Ola G ^d   Roux, Frank ^d   Shapiro, Melvyn A ^d   Snyder, Chris ^d   Toth, Zoltan ^d   Wakimoto, Roger M ^b   more..

^a Jt Centre for Mesoscale Meteorology   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Cyclogenesis; Field experiment; Mesoscale observations; Predictability

Indexed keywords

CYCLOGENESIS; FASTEX; FIELDWORK; RESEARCH PROGRAM; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 17144457906     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.56101     Document Type: Article

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