Coherent regeneration and the role of water vapor and shear in a long-lived convective episode

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 192-208

  Tuttle, John D ^a   Carbone, Richard E ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; RAIN; STATISTICAL METHODS; VECTORS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND;

COHERENT REGENERATION; UNITED STATES; WATER VAPORS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CONVECTION; PRECIPITATION; REGENERATION; SHEAR FLOW;

CONVECTION; RAINFALL; REGENERATION; SHEAR; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 1842535196     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<0192:CRATRO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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