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Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 139, Issue 672, 2013, Pages 585-599

  Engel, Chermelle B ^a   Lane, Todd P ^a   Reeder, Michael J ^b   Rezny, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bores; Cold fronts; Convective rolls; Wildfires

Indexed keywords

BORING; METEOROLOGY;

COLD FRONT; HORIZONTAL CONVECTIVE ROLLS; HORIZONTAL GRID SPACING; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITIES; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL SCALE; WILDFIRES;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; COLD FRONT; HUMIDITY; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SURFACE WIND; WILDFIRE;

AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 84897964393     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1986     Document Type: Article

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