Short-term convective mode evolution along synoptic boundaries

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1430-1446

  Dial, Greg L ^a   Racy, Jonathan P ^a   Thompson, Richard L ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary conditions; Convection; Shear structure flows

Indexed keywords

AFTER INITIATION; BOUNDARY MOTION; COLD FRONT; CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE INITIATION; DOMINANT MODE; DRYLINES; LINEAR FORCING; LINEAR GROWTH; MEAN-WINDS; MESOSCALE; MIXED MODE; NORMAL COMPONENT; PRE-FRONTAL TROUGH; RESIDENCE TIME; SHEAR STRUCTURE/FLOWS; STATISTICAL CORRELATION; TIME-PERIODS; VERTICAL SHEAR; WIND VECTORS;

BIOLOGY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; THUNDERSTORMS; WIND EFFECTS;

VECTORS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; SHEAR FLOW; STORM; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WIND FORCING;

EID: 77958484999     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010WAF2222315.1     Document Type: Article

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