Nowcasting convective activity for space shuttle landings during easterly flow regimes

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 78-107

  Bauman III, William H ^a,c   Kaplan, Michael L ^a   Businger, Steven ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c Hd quarters Air Weather Serv T   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FLOW; CAPE; CONVECTION; FLOW REGIME; MASS; SPACE SHUTTLE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

USA, FLORIDA, CAPE CANAVERAL;

EID: 0031455435     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1997)012<0078:NCAFSS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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