A case of offshore convective initiation by interacting land breezes near Darwin, Australia

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 115, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 123-137

  Wapler, Kathrin ^a   Lane, Todd P ^b  

^a DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAND BREEZE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIOSONDE; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTY;

AUSTRALIA; DARWIN; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

EID: 84856470100     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-011-0180-6     Document Type: Article

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