A New Conceptual Model for Cyclones Generated in the Lee of the Rocky Mountains

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1169-1178

  Hobbs, Peter V ^a   Locatelli, John D ^a   Martin, Jonathan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC FRONT; CYCLONE; DRY TROUGH; ICE CYCLOGENESIS; MODEL; RAIN BAND;

USA, ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0030440033     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077<1169:ANCMFC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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