The influence of ice cover on two lake-effect snow events over Lake Erie

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2747-2763

  Cordeira, Jason M ^a   Laird, Neil F ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ICE; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STORMS;

GREAT LAKES; ICE CONCENTRATIONS; ICE COVER; LAKE ERIE; LAKE ONTARIO; MOISTURE FLUXES; NEW YORK STATE; SCALE FACTORS; SNOW STORMS; SNOWBANDS; TIME PERIODS;

LAKES;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; HEAT FLUX; ICE COVER; ICE LAKE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE FLUX; SNOWMELT; SNOWSTORM;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ERIE; LAKE ONTARIO; NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 52149091871     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2310.1     Document Type: Article

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