Lake-to-lake cloud bands: Frequencies and locations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4202-4213

  Rodriguez, Yarice ^a,b   Kristovich, David A R ^c,d   Hjelmfelft, Mark R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b U S CENSUS BUREAU   (United States)

^c ILLINOIS STATE WATER SURVEY   (United States)

^d South Dakota School of Mines and Technology ^*  (United States)

^e SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAKES; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW; STORMS;

CLOUD BANDS; SNOWSTORM INTENSITY;

CLOUDS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLOUD; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAKE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOWSTORM;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ERIE; LAKE MICHIGAN; LAKE SUPERIOR; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 38049155876     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR1960.1     Document Type: Article

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