The 1995 Arizona Program: Toward a Better Understanding of Winter Storm Precipitation Development in Mountainous Terrain

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 799-813

  Klimowski, Brian A ^a   Becker, Robert ^b   Betterton, Eric A ^c   Bruintjes, Roelof ^d   Clark, Terry L ^d   Hall, William D ^d   Orr, Brad W ^e   Kropfli, Robert A ^e   Piironen, Paivi ^f   Reinking, Roger F ^e   Sundie, Dennis ^g   Uttal, Taneil ^e  

^a National Weather Service   (United States)

^b Navajo Nation Zoo   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f Arizona Dep of Water Resources   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC INSTRUMENT; MOUNTAIN REGION; STORM;

USA, ARIZONA, VERDE VALLEY;

EID: 0031671497     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1998)079<0799:TAPTAB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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