Formation of a sharp snow gradient in a midwestern heavy snow event

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 723-738

  Market, Patrick S ^a   Cissell, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; SNOW; STORMS;

SNOWFALL GRADIENT;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

SNOWSTORM; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036694315     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2002)017<0723:FOASSG>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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