A 4-yr climatology of cold-season bow echoes over the continental United States

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1061-1074

  Burke, Patrick C ^a,b   Schultz, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; ECHO SUPPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR SYSTEMS; SURVEILLANCE RADAR;

COLD-SEASON; PROXIMITY SOUNDINGS; RADAR MOSAICS; WEATHER SURVEILLANCE RADAR;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIRFLOW; CLIMATOLOGY; SQUALL LINE; SUPERCELL; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 11344290644     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/811.1     Document Type: Article

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