Enhanced depiction of surface weather features

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 491-506

  Fritsch, J Michael ^a   Vislocky, Robert L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED ANALYSIS TECHNOLOGY; ENHANCED WEATHER ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE PHENOMENA; PROTOTYPE ANALYSIS METHOD; SURFACE WEATHER ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029729714     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077<0491:EDOSWF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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