Mesoscale model ensemble forecasts of the 3 May 1999 tornado outbreak

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 526-543

  Stensrud, David J ^a   Weiss, Steven J ^a  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; THUNDERSTORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER SCHEMES;

TORNADOES;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SEVERE WEATHER; TORNADO;

KANSAS; OKLAHOMA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036614610     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2002)017<0526:MMEFOT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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