Multiscale convective organization and the YOTC virtual global field campaign

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1171-1187

  Moncrieff, Mitchell W ^a   Waliser, Duane E ^b   Miller, Martin J ^c   Shapiro, Melvyn A ^a   Asrar, Ghassem R ^d   Caughey, James ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^d WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; EXTRATROPICS; FIELD CAMPAIGN; GLOBAL WATER CYCLE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MESOSCALE; MULTISCALES; PLANETARY SCALE; PLANETARY WAVES; PRECIPITATION SYSTEMS; REGIONAL SCALE; SEASONAL CYCLE; SPACE AND TIME; TIME-SCALES; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES; TROPICAL CONVECTION; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

METEOROLOGY; TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

TROPICS;

EID: 84866382215     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00233.1     Document Type: Article

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