Using digital cloud photogrammetry to characterize the onset and transition from shallow to deep convection over orography

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2527-2546

  Zehnder, Joseph A ^a   Zhang, Liyan ^b   Hansford, Dianne ^a   Radzan, Anshuman ^a   Selover, Nancy ^a   Brown, Constance M ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX; METEOROLOGY; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; SOUNDING APPARATUS; TROPOSPHERE;

DIGITAL CLOUD PHOTOGRAMMETRY; OROGRAPHIC CUMULUS; SURFACE EQUIVALENT POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE;

CLOUDS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTION; CUMULUS; DIGITAL IMAGE; DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY; OROGRAPHY; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33749001459     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3194.1     Document Type: Article

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