Detecting and following atmospheric disturbances with a potential to generate meteotsunamis in the Adriatic

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 34, Issue 17-18, 2009, Pages 918-927

  Belušić, Danijel ^a   Strelec Mahović, Nataša ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Cloud; Convection; Meteorological tsunami; Nowcasting; Satellite imagery

Indexed keywords

ADRIATIC; ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCE; CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE CELL; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; LARGE-SCALE STREAMING; METEOROLOGICAL TSUNAMI; NOWCASTING; SATELLITE DATA; SUMMER MONTHS; UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH;

SATELLITE IMAGERY; TSUNAMIS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DETECTION METHOD; DISTURBANCE; FORECASTING METHOD; NOWCASTING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TSUNAMI;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 70449522069     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2009.08.009     Document Type: Article

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