On the squall lines preceding landfalling tropical cyclones in china

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 445-470

  Meng, Zhiyong ^a   Zhang, Yunji ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Asia; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Remote sensing; Squall lines; Statistics; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ASIA; COLD POOL; ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS; LANDFALLING; LANDFALLING TROPICAL CYCLONES; LIFE SPAN; LINEAR ORGANIZATION; MESOSCALE; MIDLATITUDES; MOIST ENVIRONMENT; MOVING SPEED; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; SQUALL LINES; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VERTICAL SHEAR;

HURRICANES; RADAR; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICS;

STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; FRONTOGENESIS; PREDICTION; RADAR; RADIOSONDE; REMOTE SENSING; SQUALL LINE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CHINA;

EID: 84863115393     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-10-05080.1     Document Type: Article

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