Kinematic and precipitation characteristics of convective systems observed by airborne Doppler radar during the life cycle of a Madden-Julian oscillation in the Indian Ocean

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1385-1402

  Guy, Nick ^a   Jorgensen, David P ^a  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft observations; Indian Ocean; Madden Julian oscillation; Mesoscale systems; Radars Radar observations; Tropics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DOPPLER RADAR; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; EXPERIMENTS; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; OCEANOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TROPICS; WIND EFFECTS;

AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; INDIAN OCEAN; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MESO-SCALE SYSTEMS; RADARS/RADAR OBSERVATIONS;

STORMS;

AIRFLOW; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DOPPLER RADAR; KINEMATICS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; TOGA-COARE; UPDRAFT;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84897374309     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00252.1     Document Type: Article

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