High-resolution simulation and analysis of the mature structure of a polar low over the Sea of Japan on 21 January 1997

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 597-608

  Fu, Gang ^a,b   Guo, Jingtian ^a   Zhang, Meigen ^b  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

High resolution simulation; Polar low; Sea of Japan; Warm core structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 4143100120     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02915727     Document Type: Article

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