Detecting winds aloft from water vapour satellite imagery in the vicinity of storms

Weather

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 251-257

  Rabin, Robert M ^a,c   Corfidi, Stephen F ^b   Brunner, Jason C ^c   Hane, Carl E ^a  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Ctr for Anal/Prediction of Storms   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 15044360000     PISSN: 00431656     EISSN: 14778696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/wea.182.03     Document Type: Article

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