The understanding severe thunderstorms and Alberta boundary layers experiment (UNSTABLE) 2008

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 739-763

  Taylor, Neil M ^a   Sills, David M L ^a   Hanesiak, John M ^b   Milbrandt, Jason A ^a   Smith, Craig D ^a   Strong, Geoff S ^c   Skone, Susan H ^d   McCarthy, Patrick J ^a   Brimelow, Julian C ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBERTA; BOUNDARY LAYER PROCESS; CONVECTIVE INITIATION; DESIGN AND OPERATIONS; FULL-SCALE EXPERIMENT; GENERAL INFORMATION; LEAD TIME; MODELING STUDIES; PILOT EXPERIMENT; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; TEST MEASUREMENTS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; THUNDERSTORMS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 79961035490     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011BAMS2994.1     Document Type: Article

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