Using sounding data to detect Gulf surges during the North American monsoon

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3047-3052

  Dixon, P Grady ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); THUNDERSTORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; DIURNAL PATTERNS; MOISTURE SURGES; MONSOON;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; MONSOON; REGIONAL CLIMATE; THUNDERSTORM;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YUMA COUNTY [ARIZONA];

YUMA;

EID: 27744489073     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3029.1     Document Type: Article

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