Quasi-stationary, extreme-rain-producing convective systems associated with midlevel cyclonic circulations

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 555-574

  Schumacher, Russ S ^a,b   Johnson, Richard H ^a  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BEHAVIOR; COMPOSITE ANALYSIS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; CONVECTIVE INHIBITION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; CONVECTIVE VORTICES; CUT-OFF LOW; CYCLONIC CIRCULATION; EXTREME RAINFALL; FLASH FLOODING; LOW LEVEL; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MIDLATITUDES; QUASI-STATIONARY; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SURFACE BOUNDARIES; WIND SHEARS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; RAIN;

STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; CYCLONE; FLOODING; JET STREAM; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; POTENTIAL ENERGY; RAINFALL; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; THERMODYNAMICS; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 69849106811     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008WAF2222173.1     Document Type: Article

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