A 25-yr climatology of large-amplitude hourly surface pressure changes over the conterminous United States

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 51-68

  Koppel, Lorna L ^a   Bosart, Lance F ^a   Keyser, Daniel ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVE; SURFACE PRESSURE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034027430     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<0051:AYCOLA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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