Upper tropospheric divergence in tropical convective systems from Meteosat-8

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Schmetz, Johannes ^a   Borde, Régis ^a   Holmlund, Kenneth ^a   König, Marianne ^a  

^a EUMETSAT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLOUDS; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SATELLITES; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC MOTION VECTORS; TROPICAL CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; UPPER TROPOSPHERIC DIVERGENCE; WIND FIELD DIVERGENCE;

GEOPHYSICS;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TROPOSPHERE; WIND FIELD;

EID: 32644476125     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024371     Document Type: Article

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