Cloud banding and winds in intense European cyclones: Results from the DIAMET project

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 249-265

  Vaughan, G ^a   Methven, J ^b   Anderson, D ^f   Antonescu, B ^a   Baker, L ^b   Baker, T P ^c   Ballard, S P ^b   Bower, K N ^a   Brown, P R A ^e   Chagnon, J ^b   Choularton, T W ^a   Chylik, J ^d   Connolly, P J ^a   Cook, P A ^d   Cotton, R J ^e   Crosier, J ^a   Dearden, C ^a   Dorsey, J R ^a   Frame, T H A ^b   Gallagher, M W ^a   Goodliff, M ^b   Gray, S L ^b   Harvey, B J ^b   Knippertz, P ^g   Lean, H W ^b   Li, D ^b   Lloyd, G ^a   Martinez Alvarado O ^b   Nicol, J ^b   Norris, J ^a   Ostrom E ^e   Owen, J ^c   Parker, D J ^c   Plant, R S ^b   Renfrew, I A ^d   Roberts, N M ^b   Rosenberg, P ^c   Rudd, A C ^b   Schultz, D M ^a   Taylor, J P ^e   Trzeciak, T ^c   Tubbs, R ^b   Vance, A K ^e   Van Leeuwen, P J ^b   Wellpott, A ^f   Woolley, A ^f   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^e MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^f Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurement   (United Kingdom)

^g KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; FORECASTING; WIND;

DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES; EXTRATROPICAL STORMS; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL MODELS; MESOSCALE STRUCTURE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION INDICES;

STORMS;

EID: 84929458857     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: 15200477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00238.1     Document Type: Article

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