Long-lived mesoscale systems in a low-convective inhibition environment. Part I: Upshear propagation

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 72, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 4297-4318

  Lane, Todd P ^a   Moncrieff, Mitchell W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Convective clouds; Cumulus clouds; Density currents; Gravity waves; Mesoscale systems

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; MAINTENANCE; STORMS; GRAVITY WAVES;

COLD POOL; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; CONVECTIVE INHIBITION; CUMULUS CLOUD; DENSITY CURRENTS; DYNAMICAL MODELING; MESO-SCALE SYSTEMS; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; PROPAGATION SPEED; THE STANDARD MODEL; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; IMPORTANT FEATURES; MOIST ENVIRONMENT;

GRAVITY WAVES; STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; CUMULUS; DENSITY CURRENT; GRAVITY WAVE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; STRATIFORM CLOUD; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 84950336080     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/jas-d-15-0073.1     Document Type: Article

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