An observational study of cold season-banded precipitation in northeast U.S. cyclones

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 993-1010

  Novak, David R ^a   Bosart, Lance F ^b   Keyser, Daniel ^b   Waldstreicher, Jeff S ^a  

^a National Weather Service Eastern Region Headquarters   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; JETS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STORMS;

COLD SEASON; FRONTOGENETICAL RESPONSE; PRECIPITATION SYSTEMS; SURFACE CYCLONE;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

COLD FRONT; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; CYCLOGENESIS; CYCLONE; FRONTOGENESIS; RAINBAND;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 11344263617     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/815.1     Document Type: Article

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