The impact of coastal boundaries and small hills on the precipitation distribution across southern Connecticut and Long Island, New York

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 933-954

  Colle, Brian A ^a   Yuter, Sandra E ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FRICTION; GRAVITY WAVES; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; STORMS;

DIFFERENTIAL FRICTION; FRICTIONAL EFFECTS; HILLS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; COAST; CYCLONE; DOPPLER RADAR; GRAVITY WAVE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SNOW;

CONNECTICUT; LONG ISLAND [NEW YORK]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34047242151     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3320.1     Document Type: Article

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