The great plains low-level jet during the warm season of 1993

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 125, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 2176-2192

  Arritt, Raymond W ^a   Rink, Thomas D ^a   Segal, Moti ^a   Todey, Dennis P ^a   Clark, Craig A ^a   Mitchell, Mark J ^b   Labas, Kenneth M ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Weather Service   (United States)

^c National Weather Service   (United States)

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EID: 0001181865     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1997)125<2176:TGPLLJ>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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