Planetary- and synoptic-scale characteristics of explosive wintertime cyclogenesis over the western North Atlantic Ocean

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 124, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2672-2702

  Lackmann, Gary M ^a,b   Bosart, Lance F ^a   Keyser, Daniel ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0012284538     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1996)124<2672:PASSCO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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