Mesoscale diagnostics of prefrontal and frontal precipitation in the Southeast Alps during MAP IOP 5

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 15-29

  Vrhovec, Tomaž ^a   Rakovec, J ^a   Gregoric G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; FRONTAL FEATURE; JET; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SQUALL LINE;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 2442432667     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-003-0023-1     Document Type: Article

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