A note on Canada's hail climatology: 1977-1993

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1357-1373

  Etkin, David ^a   Brun, Soren Erik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Hail climatology; Ice pellets; Mesoscale

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; HAIL; WEATHER STATION;

CANADA;

EID: 0033378160     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0088(199910)19:12<1357::AID-JOC422>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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