Mantle echoes associated with deep convection: Observations and numerical simulations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1701-1720

  Wakimoto, Roger M ^a   Murphey, Hanne V ^a   Fovell, Robert G ^a   Lee, Wen Chau ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ECHO SUPPRESSION; OBSERVATORIES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); THERMAL PLUMES;

MANTLE ECHOES; MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; NUCLEAR EXPLOSION;

RADAR;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR;

EID: 3943090400     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<1701:MEAWDC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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