Airborne radar observations of a cold front during FASTEX

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 7 II, 2000, Pages 2447-2470

  Wakimoto, Roger M ^a   Bosart, Brian L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SURVEY; FASTEX; OCEANIC FRONT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR IMAGERY;

EID: 0033828749     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<2447:arooac>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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