The 11 august 2006 squall-line system as observed from MIT doppler radar during the AMMA SOP

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages 209-226

  Chong, Michel ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE D AÉROLOGIE   (France)

Author keywords

Convective and stratiform precipitation; Downdraught; Microphysics; Updraught

Indexed keywords

3-D WINDS; CONVECTIVE CELL; DEEP CONVECTION; DOPPLER; DUST LIFTING; FLOW ACCELERATION; HEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; ICE PARTICLES; MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MICROPHYSICS; NIGER; NIGERIA; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; RAIN REGION; REFERENCE FRAME; RETRIEVAL MODELS; SQUALL LINES; STRATIFORM CLOUDS; STRATIFORM PRECIPITATION; THERMODYNAMIC PROFILES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE; TIME PERIODS; VERTICAL MOTIONS; VERTICAL TRANSPORTS;

CLOUDS; COALESCENCE; DOPPLER EFFECT; DOPPLER RADAR; PHYSICS; RADAR; RAIN; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

STORMS;

AIRFLOW; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DOPPLER RADAR; FORMATION MECHANISM; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SQUALL LINE; STRATIFORM CLOUD; THERMODYNAMICS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TROPOPAUSE; UPDRAFT;

CHAD; NIAMEY [NIGER]; NIGER [WEST AFRICA]; NIGERIA;

EID: 77949416302     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.466     Document Type: Article

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