The pentagon shield field program: Toward critical infrastructure protection

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 167-176

  Warner, Thomas ^a,b   Benda, Paul ^c   Swerdlin, Scott ^a   Knievel, Jason ^a   Argenta, Edward ^d   Aronian, Bryan ^d   Balsley, Ben ^b   Bowers, James ^d   Carter, Roger ^e   Clark, Pamela ^f   Clawson, Kirk ^e   Copeland, Jeff ^a   Crook, Andrew ^a   Frehlich, Rod ^a   Jensen, Michael ^b   Liu, Yubao ^a   Mayor, Shane ^a   Meillier, Yannick ^b   Morley, Bruce ^a   Sharman, Robert ^a   Spuler, Scott ^a   Storwold, Donald ^d   Sun, Juanzhen ^a   Weil, Jeffrey ^a   Xu, Mei ^a   Yates, Al ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a   more..

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Pentagon Force Protection Agency   (United States)

^d US Army Dugway Proving Ground   (United States)

^e NOAA Air Resources Laboratory Field Research Division   (United States)

^f U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; EXPLOSIONPROOFING; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; SENSORS;

OPERATIONAL BUILDING PROTECTION SYSTEM; PENTAGON SHIELD;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 33947692232     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-88-2-167     Document Type: Article

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