Development and forcing of the rear inflow jet in a rapidly developing and decaying squall line during BAMEX

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1206-1229

  Grim, Joseph A ^a,c   Rauber, Robert M ^a   McFarquhar, Greg M ^a   Jewett, Brian F ^a   Jorgensen, David P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOW ECHOES; CONVECTIVE VORTICES; COUNTER-ROTATING VORTICES; DOPPLER; DYNAMIC PRESSURES; HORIZONTAL PRESSURE; IRROTATIONAL; MESOSCALE; MODELING STUDIES; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; RADAR DATA; SQUALL LINES; SYSTEM EVOLUTION;

AIRCRAFT; STORMS; VORTEX FLOW;

PRESSURE GRADIENT;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BUOYANCY; DOPPLER RADAR; INFLOW; JET FLOW; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SQUALL LINE;

EID: 68249159695     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2503.1     Document Type: Article

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