One hundred inches in one hundred hours: Evolution of a Wasatch Mountain winter storm cycle

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1018-1036

  Steenburgh, W James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SENSORS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEA LEVEL; STORMS;

DESTABILIZATION; RADAR IMAGERY;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINSTORM; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; WASATCH RANGE;

EID: 0242524650     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2003)018<1018:OHIIOH>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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