Origin of the pre-tropical storm Debby (2006) African easterly wave-mesoscale convective system

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 120, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 123-144

  Lin, Yuh Lang ^a   Liu, Liping ^a   Tang, Guoqing ^a   Spinks, James ^a   Jones, Wilson ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; CYCLONE; EASTERLY WAVE; JET STREAM; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STORM; VORTICITY; WIND;

ARABIAN PENINSULA; ASIR; ETHIOPIAN HIGHLANDS; INDIAN OCEAN; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 84876857206     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-013-0248-6     Document Type: Article

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