Precipitation features observed by Doppler radar at Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada, during the beaufort and arctic storms experiment

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2384-2405

  Asuma, Yoshio ^a   Iwata, Soshi ^a   Kikuchi, Katsuhiro ^a   Moore, G W Kent ^b   Kimura, Ryuji ^c   Tsuboki, Kazuhisa ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER RADAR; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; STORM;

CANADA;

EID: 0032458750     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<2384:PFOBDR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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