An automated synoptic typing procedure to predict freezing rain: An application to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 751-768

  Cheng, Chad Shouquan ^a   Auld, Heather ^a   Li, Guilong ^a   Klaassen, Joan ^a   Tugwood, Bryan ^a   Li, Qian ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AUTOMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; TELECOMMUNICATION;

HUMAN SAFETY; WEATHER HAZARDS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

FORECASTING METHOD; FREEZE DRYING; MODEL VALIDATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEVERE WEATHER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO; OTTAWA;

EID: 4444314584     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2004)019<0751:AASTPT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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