Flash flood forecasting: An ingredients-based methodology

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 560-581

  Doswell III, Charles A ^a   Brooks, Harold E ^a   Maddox, Robert A ^a  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLASH FLOOD; PRECIPITATION; RAINFALL RATE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0030410793     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1996)011<0560:FFFAIB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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