A climatology of cold-season nonconvective wind events in the Great Lakes region

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 6012-6022

  Lacke, Matthew C ^a,b   Knox, John A ^c   Frye, John D ^a   Stewart, Alan E ^d   Durkee, Joshua D ^a   Fuhrmann, Christopher M ^e   Dillingham, Sarah M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Jefferson County Department of Health   (United States)

^c University of Georgia   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; DATA REDUCTION; LAKES; STATISTICS; STORMS; WIND;

CYCLONE DYNAMICS; NONCONVECTIVE WIND EVENT;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CYCLONE; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; WIND DIRECTION;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 38349165902     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1750.1     Document Type: Article

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