A terminal area PBL prediction system at Dallas-Fort Worth and its application in simulating diurnal PBL jets

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2179-2204

  Kaplan, Michael L ^a   Lin, Yuh Lang ^a   Charney, Joseph J ^a   Pfeiffer, Karl D ^a   Ensley, Darrell B ^a   DeCroix, David S ^a,b   Weglarz, Ronald P ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0041491505     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(2000)081<2179:ATAPPS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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