Severe weather reports and proximity to deep convection over Northern Argentina

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 523-537

  Matsudo, C M ^a   Salio, P V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Centro de Investigacion del Mar y la Atmosfera   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Severe weather; South America; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; NATURAL CONVECTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STORMS;

DEEP MOIST CONVECTION; GEOSTATIONARY OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MORPHING TECHNIQUES; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION; SEVERE WEATHER; SOUTH AMERICA; SURFACE STATION;

RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; DATABASE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; GUST; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; RAINFALL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEVERE WEATHER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WIND SHEAR;

ARGENTINA;

EID: 79955644153     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2010.11.004     Document Type: Article

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