A Climatology of Derecho-Producing Mesoscale Convective Systems in the Central and Eastern United States, 1986-95. Part I: Temporal and Spatial Distribution

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 79, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2527-2540

  Bentley, Mace L ^a   Mote, Thomas L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; WIND FIELD;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032466363     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1998)079<2527:ACODPM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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