A simulation of a lake effect snowstorm with a cloud resolving numerical model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 20, 2006, Pages

  Maesaka, Takeshi ^a,b   Moore, G W K ^a   Liu, Q ^a,c   Tsuboki, K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SNOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BAND CLOUDS; CLOUD RESOLVING NUMERICAL MODEL; LAKE-EFFECT SNOWSTORM;

STORMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; ICE LAKE; LAKE; OPEN WATER; SEVERE WEATHER; SNOWSTORM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GREAT LAKES; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33845681077     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026638     Document Type: Article

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