Airborne doppler observations of a landfalling cold front upstream of steep coastal orography

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1577-1603

  Yu, Cheng Ku ^a   Smull, Bradley F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; COLD FRONT; DOPPLER RADAR; OROGRAPHY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033929098     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<1577:ADOOAL>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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