A climatology of freezing rain in the Great Lakes Region of North America

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 3574-3588

  Cortinas Jr , John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLONE; FREEZING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0033652863     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2001)129<3574:ACOFRI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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