Relationships among structures, development processes, and heating profiles for two mesoscale convective systems in inactive phase of a large-scale disturbance over northern Australia during the southern summer in 1998-1999

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 81-117

  Takashi, Chiharu ^a,c   Uyeda, Hiroshi ^a   Maki, Masayuki ^b   Iwanami, Koyuru ^b   Misumi, Ryohei ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; COOLING; DISTURBANCE; DOPPLER RADAR; HEATING; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); VORTEX; WESTERLY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; DARWIN; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

EID: 43749089569     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.86.81     Document Type: Article

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