An evaluation of WSR-88D severe hail algorithms along the northeastern gulf coast

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1029-1044

  Lenning, Eric ^a,c,d   Fuelberg, Henry E ^a   Watson, Andrew I ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA National Weather Service Jacksonville   (United States)

^c PRC Inc   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EVALUATION; SURVEILLANCE RADAR; THUNDERSTORMS;

HAIL;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; HAIL; STORM TRACK; THUNDERSTORM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FLORIDA; TALLAHASSEE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032419745     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1998)013<1029:aeowsh>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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