The spatial and temporal variability of convective storms over the Northeast United States during the warm season

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 992-1012

  Murray, John C ^a,b   Colle, Brian A ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA/National Weather Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatology; Convective storms; Interannual variability; Lightning; Radars radar observations

Indexed keywords

APPALACHIANS; CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING; COASTAL PLAIN; COASTAL REGIONS; COASTAL WATERS; CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY; CONVECTIVE STORMS; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; DATA NETWORK; GRID-SPACINGS; HUDSON RIVER; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LOW LEVEL; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYERS; NEW ENGLAND; NEW JERSEY; NEW YORK; NEW YORK CITY; NORTH AMERICAN; PENNSYLVANIA; RADARS/RADAR OBSERVATIONS; REANALYSIS; SEA SURFACES; SHORTWAVE TROUGHS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; WARM SEASONS; WEATHER RADARS;

CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL ZONES; LIGHTNING; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

STORMS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING; NOCTURNAL BOUNDARY LAYER; RADAR; WESTERLY;

DELMARVA PENINSULA; HUDSON RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78651098474     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3316.1     Document Type: Article

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