Orographic effects during a severe wintertime rainstorm in the appalachian mountains

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2648-2672

  Barros, Ana P ^a   Kuligowski, Robert J ^a  

^a Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTREME EVENT; OROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINSTORM; WINTER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032453245     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<2648:OEDASW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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