The use of hourly model-generated soundings to forecast Mesoscale phenomena. Part I: Initial assessment in forecasting warm-season phenomena

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1165-1185

  Hart, Robert E ^a   Forbes, Gregory S ^a   Grumm, Richard H ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Weather Service   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CLOUDS; FOG; MOISTURE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STORMS;

FORECAST FIELDS; SOUNDING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

FORECASTING METHOD; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MODELING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0032439541     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1998)013<1165:FTTUOH>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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