The sting at the end of the tail: Model diagnostics of fine-scale three-dimensional structure of the cloud head

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 610 B, 2005, Pages 2263-2292

  Clark, Peter A ^a   Browning, K A ^a   Wang, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extratropical cyclone; Low level jet; Mesoscale; Severe windstorm

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONE; LOW-LEVEL JET; SEVERE WINDSTORM;

METEOROLOGY;

CLOUD; CYCLONE; SURFACE WIND; WIND FIELD;

EID: 27144495331     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.36     Document Type: Article

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