Spurious convective organization in simulated squall lines owing to moist absolutely unstable layers

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1978-1997

  Bryan, George H ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; WIND;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; SPURIOUS UPDRAFT PATTERN; SQUALL LINES;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; SQUALL LINE;

EID: 24144463812     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR2952.1     Document Type: Article

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