The structure of thermals in cumulus from airborne dual-doppler radar observations

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1432-1450

  Damiani, Rick ^a   Vali, Gabor ^a   Haimov, Samuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; DOPPLER EFFECT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR; VORTEX FLOW; WIND;

AIRBORNE DUAL-DOPPLER OBSERVATIONS; CUMULUS TURRETS; VORTICAL CIRCULATIONS; WYOMING CLOUD RADAR;

METEOROLOGY;

CLOUDS; DOPPLER EFFECT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; RADAR; VORTEX FLOW; WIND;

AIRBORNE SENSING; CUMULUS; DOPPLER RADAR; VORTICITY;

EID: 33744495102     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3701.1     Document Type: Article

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