Synoptic-scale features common to heavy snowstorms in the Southeast United States

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 5-23

  Mote, Thomas L ^a   Gamble, Douglas W ^a   Underwood, S Jeffrey ^a   Bentley, Mace L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; CYCLONE; SNOWFALL; SNOWSTORM; STORM; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

USA, (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 0031453311     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1997)012<0005:SSFCTH>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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