Initiation of a severe thunderstorm over the Mediterranean Sea

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 603-620

  Cohuet, J B ^a   Romero, R ^b   Homar, V ^b   Ducrocq, V ^a   Ramis, C ^b  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bow echo; Mediterranean convection; Mesovortices

Indexed keywords

BOW ECHOES; COASTAL OROGRAPHY; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; CUT-OFF; DEEP CONVECTION; GUST FRONTS; HEAVY RAINS; HIGH RESOLUTION; MALLORCA; MEDITERRANEAN BASIN; MEDITERRANEAN CONVECTION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MESOSCALE FEATURES; MESOSCALE MODEL; MESOVORTICES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; SEVERE WEATHER; SMALL-SCALE VORTICES; SQUALL LINES; TORNADO DEVELOPMENT; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION; WARM AIR;

ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; RAIN; THUNDERSTORMS;

TORNADOES;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; GUST; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL METHOD; SEVERE WEATHER; SQUALL LINE; THUNDERSTORM; TORNADO; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; MAJORCA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SPAIN;

EID: 79955670347     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2010.11.002     Document Type: Article

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