Forecasting the maintenance of quasi-linear mesoscale convective systems

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 556-570

  Coniglio, Michael C ^a,b   Brooks, Harold E ^b   Weiss, Steven J ^c   Corfidi, Stephen F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOGISTIC REGRESSION PROCEDURE; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLOUDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WIND;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 34447623234     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF1006.1     Document Type: Article

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