A diagnostic case study of Mei-yu frontogenesis and development of wavelike frontal disturbances in the subtropical environment

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 41-61

  Chen, George Tai Jen ^a   Wang, Chung Chieh ^b   Chang, Sau Wa ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINESE CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; VORTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CONDITIONAL INSTABILITY OF THE SECOND KIND; LOW-LEVEL JET; MEI-YU FRONT; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS;

STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC FRONT; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; CYCLOGENESIS; CYCLONE; FRONTOGENESIS; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SHEAR ZONE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; VORTICITY; WIND FIELD;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

CITRUS MAXIMA;

EID: 39749185476     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR1966.1     Document Type: Article

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