Unusually long duration, multiple-doppler radar observations of front in a convective boundary layer

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 93-117

  Stonitsch, John R ^a,b   Markowski, Paul M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DOPPLER RADAR; VORTEX FLOW;

BAROCLINITY; BOUNDARY LAYER CONVECTION; COLD FRONT; FRONT-NORMAL DENSITY GRADIENT; FRONTAL UPDRAFT; SLABULARITY; UPDRAFT TILT; WARM FRONT;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; COLD FRONT; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; DOPPLER RADAR; THERMODYNAMICS; WARM FRONT; WIND FIELD; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 33846663157     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3261.1     Document Type: Article

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