On the storms passing over southern Baffin Island during autumn 2005

Arctic

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 309-321

  Roberts, Erin ^a   Nawri, Nikolai ^a   Stewart, Ronald E ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autumn storms; Eastern Canadian Arctic; Precipitation; Rawinsonde profiles; Synoptic conditions

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE; AUTUMN; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; ISLAND; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STORM; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

BAFFIN ISLAND; CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT;

EID: 52749084212     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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