Simulation of snowstorm over the Yellow Sea using a mesoscale coupled model

Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 437-452

  Heo, Ki Young ^a   Kim, Kyung Eak ^b   Ha, Kyung Ja ^a   Park, Kwang Soon ^c   Jun, Ki Cheon ^c   Shim, Jae Seol ^c   Suh, Young Sang ^d  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^b Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^c Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

^d National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

barotropic instability; conditional symmetric instability; convective instability; Ocean effect snowstorm; surface diabatic heating

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651441546     PISSN: 19767633     EISSN: 19767951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13143-010-0025-0     Document Type: Article

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