Lake breezes in southern Ontario and their relation to tornado climatology

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 795-807

  King, Patrick W S ^a   Leduc, Michael J ^a   Sills, David M L ^a   Donaldson, Norman R ^a   Hudak, David R ^a   Joe, Paul ^a   Murphy, Brian P ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; FLOODS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TORNADOES;

LAKE-BREEZE BOUNDARIES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

GOES; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TORNADO; WIND PROFILE;

CANADA;

EID: 0344467293     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2003)018<0795:LBISOA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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