Climatology of lake-effect snowstorms of the Great Salt Lake

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 709-727

  Steenburgh, W James ^a   Halvorson, Scott F ^a   Onton, Daryl J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAKE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SNOWSTORM;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034018687     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<0709:COLESO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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