How representative were the meteorological conditions during the COPS field experiment in summer 2007?

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 619-630

  Wernli, Heini ^a,b   Pfahl, Stephan ^a,b   Trentmann, Jörg ^a,c   Zimmer, Matthias ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^c DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; BRITISH ISLES; CONTINENTAL SCALE; COOL AIR; EASTERN EUROPE; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; FEATURE-BASED; FIELD EXPERIMENT; LARGE-SCALE ADVECTION; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; NORTH ATLANTIC; OBSERVATION PERIOD; OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION; POTENTIAL INSTABILITY; QUASI-STATIONARY; REPRESENTATIVITY; SCANDINAVIA; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TRAJECTORY CALCULATIONS; WARM AIR; WARM AND HUMID CONDITIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; STORMS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ADVECTION; AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; METEOROLOGY; STRATOSPHERE; SUMMER; THERMODYNAMICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EASTERN EUROPE; FRANCE; SPAIN; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79951906908     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2010/0483     Document Type: Article

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