An unexpectedly heavy and complex snowfall event across the Southern Appalachian Region

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 224-235

  Gaffin, David M ^a   Parker, Stephen S ^a   Kirkwood, Paul D ^a  

^a National Weather Service   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; WEATHER SATELLITES;

OROGRAPHY;

SNOWFALL MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; FRONTOGENESIS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MOUNTAIN REGION; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; SNOWSTORM;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037645951     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2003)018<0224:AUHACS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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