Nowcasting storm initiation and growth using GOES-8 and WSR-88D data

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 562-584

  Roberts, Rita D ^a   Rutledge, Steven ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CUMULUS CLOUDS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CUMULUS; DATA PROCESSING; GOES; RADAR IMAGERY; REAL TIME; STORM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141745004     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2003)018<0562:NSIAGU>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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