A study of relationships between florida thunderstorm properties and corresponding anvil cloud characteristics

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1882-1901

  Theisen, Chris J ^a   Kucera, Paul A ^a   Poellot, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRRUS REGIONAL STUDY OF TROPICAL ANVILS AND CIRRUS LAYERS; CLIMATE SYSTEM; CONTOUR ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL FACE; FLORIDA; FLORIDA AREA CIRRUS EXPERIMENTS; LIFE CYCLE CHARACTERISTICS; MEAN PARTICLE SIZE; MULTI-CELL CLUSTERS; OUTFLOW BOUNDARY; PARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; RADIATION BUDGET; SEA-BREEZE; SINGLE CELLS; VERTICAL PROFILE OF REFLECTIVITIES;

CLIMATE MODELS; CLOUDS; ICE; REFLECTION; THUNDERSTORMS; TOOLS;

PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CUMULONIMBUS; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; REFLECTIVITY; THUNDERSTORM; VERTICAL PROFILE;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77649118965     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAMC1991.1     Document Type: Article

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