Heavy cold-season precipitation in the northwestern United States: Synoptic climatology and an analysis of the flood of 17-18 January 1986

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 687-700

  Lackmann, Gary M ^a,c   Gyakum, John R ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033208502     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1999)014<0687:HCSPIT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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