Initiation of convection over the Black Forest mountains during COPS IOP15a

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages 176-189

  Bennett, Lindsay J ^a   Blyth, Alan M ^a   Burton, Ralph R ^a   Gadian, Alan M ^a   Weckwerth, Tammy M ^b   Behrendt, Andreas ^c   Di Girolamo, Paolo ^d   Dorninger, Manfred ^e   Lock, Sarah Jane ^a   Smith, Victoria H ^a   Mobbs, Stephen D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cold pools; Convergence; Elevated heating; WRF

Indexed keywords

COLD-POOLS; CONVERGENCE; DOPPLER; ELEVATED HEATING; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; INNER DOMAIN; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; PRECIPITATING CLOUDS; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; THERMAL FLOWS; THERMALLY DRIVEN; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WRF;

CLOUDS; FORESTRY; HEATING; LAKES; LANDFORMS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVERGENCE; DOPPLER RADAR; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

FORECASTS; FORESTRY; HEATING; LAKES; LAND; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PRECIPITATION; WEATHER;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; BLACK FOREST; GERMANY;

EID: 79951904450     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.760     Document Type: Article

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