Summertime convective storm environments in Central Arizona: Local observations

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 14, Issue 6 PART 2, 1999, Pages 994-1006

  Wallace, Clinton E ^a,b,c,e   Maddox, Robert A ^a,b,d   Howard, Kenneth W ^d  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NEXRAD Weather Service Office   (United States)

^e SW South Agricultural Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; REGIONAL CLIMATE; THUNDERSTORM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARIZONA; PHOENIX; UNITED STATES;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; THERMODYNAMICS; THUNDERSTORMS; WIND;

CONVECTIVE STORMS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0033237224     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1999)014<0994:scseic>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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