Corridors of warm season precipitation in the central United States

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2297-2317

  Tuttle, John D ^a   Davis, Chris A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGY; KINEMATICS; RADAR; RAIN GAGES; THERMODYNAMICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COMPOSITE RADAR DATASET; LOW-LEVEL JET (LLJ); MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748990115     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3188.1     Document Type: Article

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