The dryline on 22 May 2002 during IHOP_2002: Convective-scale measurements at the profiling site

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 294-310

  Demoz, Belay B ^a   Flamant, Cyrille ^b   Weckwerth, Tammy M ^c   Whiteman, David ^a   Evans, Keith ^d   Fabry, Frédéric ^e   Di Girolamo, Paolo ^f   Miller, David ^g   Geerts, Bart ^h   Brown, William ^h   Schwemmer, Geary ^a   Gentry, Bruce ^a   Feltz, Wayne ⁱ   Wang, Zhien ^d  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^g SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE INITIATION; CONVECTIVE-SCALE MEASUREMENTS; MULTIPLE ANTENNA PROFILER RADAR (MAPR); SCANNING RAMAN LIDAR (SRL); WATER VAPOR MIXING RATIO;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; MOISTURE; OPTICAL RADAR; STORMS; VAPORS; WIND;

HEAT CONVECTION;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; FORMATION MECHANISM;

EID: 33644779028     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3054.1     Document Type: Article

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