A five-year radar-based climatology of tropopause folds and deep convection over wales, United Kingdom

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1693-1707

  Antonescu, Bogdan ^a   Vaughan, Geraint ^a   Schultz, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE STORMS; DEEP CONVECTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION DATUM; MOIST CONVECTION; UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH; VERY HIGH FREQUENCY; WEATHER RADAR NETWORKS; WIND-PROFILING RADAR;

CLIMATOLOGY; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; STORMS;

CLOUDS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATOLOGY; RADAR; STORM; TROPOPAUSE; WIND PROFILE;

UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

EID: 84878204782     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00246.1     Document Type: Article

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