Mesoscale vortices embedded within a lake-effect shoreline band

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2269-2274

  Grim, Joseph A ^a   Laird, Neil F ^a   Kristovich, David A R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE WATER SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAKE WATER; MESOSCALE MOTION; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 4644290066     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<2269:MVEWAL>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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