SUOMI: Pragmatic visionary

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 559-577

  Lewis, John M ^a,c   Martin, David W ^b   Rabin, Robert M ^a,b   Moosmuller, Hans ^c  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT OPERATIONS; ENGINEERING SKILLS; MID-LATITUDE STATION; SONIC ANEMOMETER; SOUND PULSE; SPHERICAL SHAPE; WIND SPEED; WORLD LEADERS; WORLD WAR II;

INNOVATION; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SATELLITE ANTENNAS; SATELLITES; SILVER;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 77953197319     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009BAMS2897.1     Document Type: Article

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