Life cycle of midlatitude deep convective systems in a Lagrangian framework

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 23, 2012, Pages

  Feng, Zhe ^a,b   Dong, Xiquan ^a   Xi, Baike ^a   McFarlane, Sally A ^b   Kennedy, Aaron ^a   Lin, Bing ^c   Minnis, Patrick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AREAL COVERAGE; COMPOSITE ANALYSIS; CONVECTIVE INTENSITY; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; HYBRID CLASSIFICATION; LAGRANGIAN; MEDIUM SYSTEM; MIDLATITUDES; MULTI SENSOR; SATELLITE TRACKING; STRATIFORM CLOUDS; SYSTEM SIZE; THREE COMPONENT; TROPOSPHERIC WINDS; WARM SEASONS; WIND SHEARS;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLOUD CLASSIFICATION; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STRATIFORM CLOUD; TROPOSPHERE; WIND SHEAR; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84870592379     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JD018362     Document Type: Article

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