STORMTIPE-95: Results from a convective storm forecast experiment

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 388-398

  Wicker, Louis J ^a   Kay, Michael P ^a   Foster, Michael P ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA National Weather Service Houston Galveston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STORMS; WIND EFFECTS;

CLOUD RESOLVING MODELS; CONVECTIVE STORM FORECAST;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CONVECTIVE STORM; STORMTIPE - 95; WEATHER FORECASTING;

USA, TEXAS;

EID: 0031225176     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1997)012<0388:SRFACS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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