Three-dimensional simulation of frontal rainbands and conditional symmetric instability in the Eady-wave model

Da-Lin Zhang; Han-Ru Cho

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v47i1.11493

Three-dimensional simulation of frontal rainbands and conditional symmetric instability in the Eady-wave model

Tellus

Volume 47 (1995): Issue 1

By: Da-Lin Zhang and Han-Ru Cho

Open Access

|Jan 1995

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