The initiation and evolution of multiple modes of convection within a meso-alpha-scale region

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1221-1252

  French, Adam J ^a   Parker, Matthew D ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRY AIRS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATIONS; INITIATION MECHANISMS; LINEAR FORCING; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE MODES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; OKLAHOMA; SHEAR ENVIRONMENTS; SUPER CELLS; VERTICAL SHEARS; WIND SHEARS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SUPERCELL; WIND SHEAR;

KANSAS; NORTH AMERICA; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 65549167691     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008WAF2222136.1     Document Type: Article

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