Snowbands during the cold-air outbreak of 23 January 2003

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 827-842

  Schultz, David M ^a   Arndt, Derek S ^a   Stensrud, David J ^b   Hanna, Jay W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; CLOUDS; CONDENSATION; DENDRIMERS; HEAT FLUX; ICE; MEASUREMENTS; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

HORIZONTAL CONVECTIVE ROLLS; SEEDER-FEEDER PROCESS; SNOWBANDS;

SNOW;

ICE CRYSTAL; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SNOWSTORM; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 1842685659     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<0827:SDTCOO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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