Bowing convective systems in a popular operational model: Are they for real?

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 307-324

  Bukovsky, Melissa S ^a,b   Kain, John S ^a   Baldwin, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPOSPHERE;

BETTS-MILLER-JANJI CONVECTIVE PARAMETERIZATION; BOWING CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; SELF-PERPETUATING MESOSCALE SYSTEMS; TROPOSPHERIC COOLING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; COOLING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 33745853822     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF908.1     Document Type: Article

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