An empirical blowing snow forecast technique for the Canadian arctic and the Prairie provinces

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 51-62

  Baggaley, David G ^a   Hanesiak, John M ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; METEOROLOGY; SNOW; THERMAL EFFECTS;

EMPIRICAL BLOWING; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; PUBLIC SAFETY; SNOW FORCAST TECHNIQUE;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

FORECASTING METHOD; SNOW; VISIBILITY; WIND VELOCITY;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 14744298487     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-833.1     Document Type: Article

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