A case study of the great plains low-level jet using wind profiler network data and a high-resolution mesoscale model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 785-806

  Zhong, Shiyuan ^a   Fast, Jerome D ^a   Bian, Xindi ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0001674253     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1996)124<0785:ACSOTG>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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