Icing severity in the December 2002 freezing-rain storm from ASOS data

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1630-1644

  Jones, Kathleen F ^a   Ramsay, Allan C ^b   Lott, J Neal ^c  

^a Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; DATA ACQUISITION; FREEZING; ICE; RAIN; WEATHER FORECASTING;

POWER LINES; TOTAL PRECIPITATION; WEATHER STATIONS;

STORMS;

EXTREME EVENT; ICE STORM; ICE THICKNESS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEVERE WEATHER;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3943086167     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<1630:ISITDF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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