An assessment of low-level baroclinity and vorticity within a simulated supercell

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 649-669

  Beck, Jeffrey ^a   Weiss, Christopher ^b  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convective scale processes; Mesoscale models; Storm environments; Thermodynamics; Vorticity

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE-SCALE PROCESS; EVAPORATIVE COOLING; HORIZONTAL VORTICITY; MESO-SCALE MODELS; STORM ENVIRONMENTS; SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS; TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS; WEALTH OF INFORMATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS; THERMODYNAMICS; THUNDERSTORMS;

VORTICITY;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BAROCLINIC MODE; CYCLONE; GUST; INFLOW; MESOSCALE EDDY; OUTFLOW; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SUPERCELL; THERMODYNAMICS; THUNDERSTORM; VORTICITY;

EID: 84875001702     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00115.1     Document Type: Article

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