On the occurrence of freezing rain and ice pellets over the eastern Canadian Arctic

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 89, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 93-109

  Roberts, Erin ^a   Stewart, Ronald E ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eastern Arctic; Freezing rain; Ice pellets; Upper air and synoptic analysis

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FREEZING; ICE; STATISTICS; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITION; FREEZING RAIN; ICE PELLETS; SURFACE CONDITION;

RAIN;

DATA INVERSION; DATA SET; FREEZING; ICE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SURFACE WIND; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

CANADA; IQALUIT; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 44649090056     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2007.11.032     Document Type: Article

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