Improving snowfall forecasting by accounting for the climatological variability of snow density

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 94-103

  Ware, Eric C ^a   Schultz, David M ^b,c   Brooks, Harold E ^c   Roebber, Paul J ^d   Bruening, Sara L ^d  

^a Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SNOW; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

CLIMATOLOGICAL VARIABILITY; SNOW DENSITY; SNOW RATIO; SNOWFALL FORECASTING; WIND SPEED;

CLIMATOLOGY;

FORECASTING METHOD; SNOW;

EID: 33645651845     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF903.1     Document Type: Article

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