The cumulus, photogrammetric, in situ, and Doppler Observations Experiment of 2006

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 57-73

  Damiani, R ^a   Zehnder, J ^b   Geerts, Bart ^a   Demko, J ^a   Haimov, S ^a   Petti, J ^c   Poulos, G S ^d   Razdan, A ^b   Hu, J ^b   Leuthold, M ^c   French, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLOUDS; DOPPLER RADAR; HEAT CONVECTION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; TROPOSPHERE;

OROGRAPHIC TOROIDAL CIRCULATION; STEREOPHOTOGRAMMETRY;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 41849101035     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-89-1-57     Document Type: Article

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