Derecho and MCS development, evolution, and multiscale interactions during 3-5 July 2003

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3048-3070

  Metz, Nicholas D ^a   Bosart, Lance F ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOW ECHOES; COLD POOL; CONVECTIVE VORTICES; DERECHO; DIABATIC HEATING; INERTIA-GRAVITY WAVES; JET STREAMS; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MULTISCALE INTERACTIONS; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; SURFACE BOUNDARIES; WIND ERRORS;

ERRORS; FORECASTING; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAKES; WAVES;

STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GRAVITY WAVE; JET STREAM; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

IOWA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77958461260     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3218.1     Document Type: Article

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