Evaluation of Alberta hail growth model using severe hail proximity soundings from the United States

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1592-1609

  Jewell, Ryan ^a   Brimelow, Julian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBERTA; CLOUD MODELS; GROWTH MODELS; HIGH QUALITY; MODEL OUTPUTS; PROXIMITY SOUNDINGS; SEVERE WEATHER; SOUTH AFRICA; VERIFICATION DATA;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CALIBRATION; DATA PROCESSING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GROWTH MODELING; HAIL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PRECIPITATION QUALITY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER STATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 74549168893     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009WAF2222230.1     Document Type: Article

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