Cold front acceleration over Lake Michigan

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 771-781

  Gallus, William A ^a   Segal, Moti ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLD FRONT; FRONTAL FEATURE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WEATHER MODIFICATION;

GREAT LAKES; LAKE MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0343920812     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1999)014<0771:CFAOLM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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