A numerical model study of an intense cutoff low pressure system over South Africa

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1128-1150

  Singleton, A T ^a   Reason, C J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; TOPOGRAPHY;

LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

METEOROLOGY;

CYCLOGENESIS; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; TROPOSPHERE;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 34047225165     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3311.1     Document Type: Article

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