Convection initiation along soil moisture boundaries in the Southern Great Plains

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1140-1151

  Frye, John D ^a   Mote, Thomas L ^b  

^a KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection; Microwave observations; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; CONVECTION; CRITICAL VALUE; LOW LEVEL JET; MESOSCALE CIRCULATION; MESOSCALE EFFECT; MICROWAVE IMAGERS; MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS; MODELING STUDIES; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; REANALYSIS; SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS; SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS; TERM FIELD; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; VOLUMETRIC SOIL MOISTURES; WEATHER SURVEILLANCE RADAR-1988 DOPPLER;

MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PROBABILITY; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; SOIL MOISTURE; SURVEILLANCE RADAR;

SOIL SURVEYS;

AIR MASS; CONVECTION; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

GREAT PLAINS;

EID: 77955533754     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2865.1     Document Type: Article

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