REFRACTT 2006

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1535-1548

  Roberts, Rita D ^a   Fabry, Frédéric ^b   Kennedy, Patrick C ^c   Nelson, Eric ^a   Wilson, James W ^a   Rehak, Nancy ^a   Fritz, Jason ^c   Chandrasekar, V ^c   Braun, John ^e   Sun, Juanzhen ^a   Ellis, Scott ^a   Reising, Steven ^c   Crum, Timothy ^d   Mooney, Larry ^d   Palmer, Robert ^f   Weckwerth, Tammy ^a   Padmanabhan, Sharmila ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; RADAR; REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; THUNDERSTORMS; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

HIGH RESOLUTIONS; INDEX OF REFRACTIONS; LARGE DOMAINS; MOISTURE FIELDS; MOISTURE VARIABILITIES; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICES; NEAR SURFACES; NEXT GENERATION WEATHER RADARS; OPERATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECASTS; REAL TIME; SHORT-TERM FORECASTING;

MOISTURE CONTROL;

EID: 60849138400     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008BAMS2412.1     Document Type: Article

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