The shared mobile atmospheric research and teaching radar: A collaboration to enhance research and teaching

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 86, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1263-1274

  Biggerstaff, Michael I ^a   Wicker, Louis J ^b   Guynes, Jerry ^c   Ziegler, Conrad ^b   Straka, Jerry M ^a   Rasmussen, Erik N ^a   Doggett IV, Arthur ^d   Carey, Larry D ^c   Schroeder, John L ^d   Weiss, Chris ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; DOPPLER RADAR; HURRICANES; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR SYSTEMS; RAIN; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; METEOROLOGICAL EDUCATION; MOBILE OBSERVING SYSTEMS; SHARED MOBILE ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH AND TEACHING (SMART);

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 25844503702     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-86-9-1263     Document Type: Article

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