Research Article

Numerical Simulations of the South American Low Level Jet in Two Episodes of MCSs: Sensitivity to PBL and Convective Parameterization Schemes

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Enhanced thermal infrared imagery from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) during the mature stage of the MCSs: (a) GOES-10 at 0600 UTC 22 October 2008; (b) GOES-12 at 0300 UTC 19 January 2010. Colored shading scale indicates brightness temperatures in Celsius (source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, USA) and Environmental Satellite Division of the National Institute for Space Research (DSA-INPE, Brazil)).
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