The July 1995 heat wave in the midwest: A climatic perspective and critical weather factors

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1507-1518

  Kunkel, Kenneth E ^a   Changnon, Stanley A ^a   Reinke, Beth C ^a   Arritt, Raymond W ^b  

^a ILLINOIS STATE WATER SURVEY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER MIXING; DEWPOINT TEMPERATURE; HEALTH IMPACT; HEAT WAVE; METEOROLOGICAL FEATURES; NATURAL HAZARD; URBAN HEAT ISLAND;

USA, (MIDWEST); USA, ILLINOIS, CHICAGO;

EID: 0030439382     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077<1507:TJHWIT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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