The moist boundary layer under a mid-latitude weather system

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 367-386

  Boutle, I A ^a,b   Beare, R J ^c   Belcher, S E ^a   Brown, A R ^b   Plant, R S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cyclone waves; Moisture cycle; Synoptically forced boundary layer

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; ATMOSPHERIC WATER; COLD FRONT; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; CONVEYOR BELTS; CYCLONE WAVES; LARGE-SCALE DYNAMICS; MAIN PROCESS; MOIST PROCESS; SHALLOW CUMULUS CONVECTION; STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER; SYNOPTIC SYSTEMS; SYNOPTICALLY-FORCED BOUNDARY LAYER; THERMAL ADVECTION; WEATHER SYSTEMS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; BELT CONVEYORS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; MOISTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SOLIDS; STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; COLD FRONT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CYCLONE; MOISTURE TRANSFER; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; VENTILATION; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 76649142038     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-009-9452-9     Document Type: Article

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