Characteristics of low-level jets in Shanghai during the 2008-2009 warm seasons as Inferred from wind profiler radar data

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 891-903

  Du, Yu ^a   Zhang, Qinghong ^a   Ying, Yue ^a   Yang, Yinming ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI METEOROLOGICAL BUREAU   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL ZONE; DIURNAL VARIATION; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; JET FLOW; RADAR; WIND PROFILE;

CHINA; SHANGHAI;

EID: 84873877289     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.2012-603     Document Type: Article

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