Objective classification of tropical mesoscale convective systems

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 5797-5808

  Pope, Mick ^a   Jakob, Christian ^b   Reeder, Michael J ^b  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE PHASIS; AUSTRALIA; CLASS 1; CLOUD-TOP TEMPERATURES; DATA SETS; EASTERN AUSTRALIA; EXPANSION RATE; GEOSTATIONARY METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITES; INFRARED CHANNEL; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY; NORTHERN AUSTRALIA; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; SUBTROPICAL LATITUDES; TROPICAL MESOSCALE; WET SEASON;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; OCEANOGRAPHY;

STORMS;

CLOUD COVER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DATA SET; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MONSOON; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; WET SEASON;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77649287448     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2777.1     Document Type: Article

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