Finescale radar observations of the 22 May 2002 dryline during the International H2O Project (IHOP)

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 273-293

  Weiss, Christopher C ^a   Bluestein, Howard B ^b   Pazmany, Andrew L ^c  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c ProSensing Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRYLINE POSITION; DRYLINE STRUCTURE; FINESCALE RADAR; GROUND-BASED VARIATIONAL; PSEUDO-MULTIPLE-DOPPLER PROCESSING;

ARID REGIONS; DOPPLER RADAR; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; THUNDERSTORMS; WIND;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

FORECASTING METHOD; RADAR; THUNDERSTORM;

EID: 33644746539     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3068.1     Document Type: Article

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