Dual wind profiler observations of a line-shaped convective system in southern Kyushu, Japan

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 725-743

  Adachi, Ahoro ^a   Kobayashi, Takahisa ^a   Kato, Teruyuki ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; CONVERGENCE; DIVERGENCE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; KYUSHU;

EID: 3242753432     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.2004.725     Document Type: Article

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