Structural characteristics of convective systems over South America related to cold-frontal incursions

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1045-1064

  Siqueira, Jose Ricardo ^a   Rossow, William B ^b   Machado, Luiz Augusto Toledo ^a   Pearl, Cindy ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; RAIN; SENSORS;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS (CS); CONVERGENCE ZONES; MICROWAVE SENSORS; TROPICAL LATITUDES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

COLD FRONT; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM;

SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 20444449336     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR2888.1     Document Type: Article

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