The effect of mesoscale heterogeneity on the genesis and structure of mesovortices within quasi-linear convective systems

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4220-4241

  Wheatley, Dustan M ^a,b   Trapp, Robert J ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; VORTEX FLOW; WIND POWER;

AIR MASSES; AIR PARCELS; CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; EXTERNAL-; MESOSCALE; MESOVORTEX; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; OUT-FLOWS; OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES; SYSTEM INTERACTIONS; VERTICAL WIND SHEARS; VORTEX REGIONS; VORTEX STRETCHING;

FLOW INTERACTIONS;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; CONVERGENCE; HETEROGENEITY; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; UPDRAFT; VORTICITY; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 57149135503     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2294.1     Document Type: Article

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