The 8 and 9 July 1993 Nebraska Derecho: An observational study and comparison to the climatology of related mesoscale convective systems

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 12, Issue 3 PART II, 1997, Pages 678-688

  Bentley, Mace L ^a   Cooper, Stonie R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Weather Channel   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

DERECHO; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS;

STORMS;

DERECHO; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

USA, NEBRASKA;

EID: 0031225170     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1997)012<0678:tajnda>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Review

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