Modeling maximum hail size in Alberta thunderstorms

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1048-1062

  Brimelow, Julian C ^a   Reuter, Gerhard W ^a   Poolman, Eugene R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN WEATHER SERVICE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PROBABILITY; THUNDERSTORMS;

FALSE-ALARM RATIOS (FAR);

WEATHER FORECASTING;

HAIL; MODELING; SUMMER; THUNDERSTORM;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

EID: 0036821630     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2002)017<1048:MMHSIA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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