Mesoscale model simulation of the 4-5 January 1995 lake-effect snowstorm

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 893-920

  Ballentine, Robert J ^a   Stamm, Alfred J ^a   Chermack, Eugene E ^a   Byrd, Gregory P ^b   Schleede, Donald ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAKES; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SNOW;

LAKE-EFFECT SNOWSTORMS; SNOWBANDS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

FORECASTING METHOD; LAKE; MODELING; PREDICTION; SNOWSTORM;

GREAT LAKES; LAKE ONTARIO; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032423059     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1998)013<0893:MMSOTJ>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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