Weather Support to Deicing Decision Making (WSDDM): A winter weather nowcasting system

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 579-595

  Rasmussen, Roy ^a   Dixon, Mike ^a   Hage, Frank ^a   Cole, Jeff ^a   Wade, Chuck ^a   Tuttle, John ^a   McGettigan, Starr ^d   Carty, Thomas ^d   Stevenson, Lloyd ^b   Fellner, Warren ^c   Knight, Shelly ^a   Karplus, Eli ^a   Rehak, Nancy ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b VOLPE NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^c System Resources Corporation   (United States)

^d Box 3000 ^*

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EID: 0041406076     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(2001)082<0579:WSTDDM>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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