On the Origin of atmospheric frontal lines off the east coast of Taiwan observed on spaceborne synthetic aperture radar images

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 475-496

  Alpers, Werner ^a   Chen, Jen Ping ^b   Pi, Chia Jung ^b   Lin, I I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARRIER JETS; CLOUD DENSITY; CONVERGENCE ZONES; DYNAMIC INTERACTION; EAST COAST; ENVISAT; EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING SATELLITES; GENERATION MECHANISM; KATABATIC WINDS; MESOSCALE MODEL; METEOROLOGICAL MODELS; MOUNTAIN RANGES; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; QUASI-STATIONARY; RAINBANDS; RECIRCULATIONS; SAR IMAGES; SPACEBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES;

CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AIRFLOW; ENVISAT-1; ERS-1; ERS-2; FRONTAL FEATURE; JET; KATABATIC FLOW; MOUNTAIN REGION; RADAR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIMULATION; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

TAIWAN;

EID: 77953181491     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2987.1     Document Type: Article

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