Shallow great lake-scale atmospheric thermal circulation imaged by synthetic aperture radar

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 3654-3663

  Winstead, Nathaniel S ^a,b   Mourad, Pierre D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND SURFACE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0033646237     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<3654:SGLSAT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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