Mesoscale GPS tomography applied to the 12 June 2002 convective initiation event of IHOP_2002

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 640, 2009, Pages 645-662

  Champollion, C ^a,b   Flamant, C ^b   Bock, O ^b,c   Masson, F ^d   Turner, D D ^e   Weckwerth, T ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^b INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^c INSTITUT GÉOGRAPHIQUE NATIONAL   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric water vapour; Moisture convergence; Outflow boundary

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; AIR PARCELS; ATMOSPHERIC EMITTED RADIANCE INTERFEROMETERS; ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOUR; CONVECTIVE INITIATION; DRY AIR; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FREE CONVECTIONS; GPS TOMOGRAPHY; LIFTING CONDENSATION LEVELS; MESOSCALE; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; MOIST SURFACES; MOISTURE CONVERGENCE; OKLAHOMA; OUTFLOW BOUNDARY; RADIOSONDE DATAS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; TIME VARYING; TRIGGERING MECHANISM; VERTICAL TRANSPORTS; WATER VAPOUR; WATER VAPOUR DENSITY; WATER-VAPOUR VARIABILITY;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS; MOISTURE; NATURAL CONVECTION; OPTICAL RADAR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; THERMOCHEMISTRY; TOMOGRAPHY;

WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; GPS; INTERFEROMETER; OUTFLOW; RADIOSONDE; THEORETICAL STUDY; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 69549131304     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.386     Document Type: Article

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