Heavy precipitation events in New Jersey: Attendant upper-air conditions

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 14, Issue 6 PART 2, 1999, Pages 933-954

  Harnack, Robert P ^a,b   Apffel, Kirk ^a   Cermak III, Joseph R ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEVERE WEATHER;

NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW; WIND;

HEAVY PRECIPITATION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0033237218     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1999)014<0933:hpeinj>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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