A flash flood from a lake-enhanced rainband

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 271-288

  Nicosia, David J ^a,c   Ostuno, Ernest J ^a   Winstead, Nathaniel ^b   Klavun, Gabriel ^b   Patterson, Charles ^b   Gilbert, Craig ^b   Bryan, George ^b   Clark, John H E ^b   Fritsch, J M ^b  

^a NOAA/National Weather Service   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c National Weather Service Office   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FLASH FLOOD; LAKE ENHANCED RAINBAND; TROUGH;

FLOODS;

FLASH FLOOD; LAKE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

LAKE ERIE; PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033117831     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1999)014<0271:AFFFAL>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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