Convective mixing in a tropopause fold

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 130, Issue 599 PART B, 2004, Pages 1195-1212

  Reid, H J ^a   Vaughan, G ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cold front; MST radar; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; HEAT CONVECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CONVECTIVE MIXING; TROPOPAUSE FOLDS;

TROPOSPHERE;

COLD FRONT; CONVECTION; MIXING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TROPOPAUSE; TURBULENCE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 2942612066     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.03.21     Document Type: Article

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