Radar Observations of a Major Industrial Fire

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 803-814

  Rogers, R R ^a   Brown, W O J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRE; PAINT FACTORY; RADAR; SCANNING RADAR; SMOKE PLUME;

CANADA, QUEBEC, MONTREAL, LAVAL;

EID: 0031465556     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1997)078<0803:ROOAMI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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