Reexamination of the 9-10 November 1975 "Edmund Fitzgerald" storm using today's technology

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 607-622

  Hultquist, Thomas R ^a   Dutter, Michael R ^a   Schwab, David J ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

METEOROLOGICAL RARITY; REEXAMINATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EID: 33744509414     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-87-5-607     Document Type: Article

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