The local winter storm scale: A measure of the intrinsic ability of winter storms to disrupt society

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 721-737

  Cerruti, Brian J ^a,b   Decker, Steven G ^a,c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Dept of Environmental Sciences ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; COLD SEASON; EASE OF USE; INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT; INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; NEW JERSEY; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SURFACE OBSERVATION; WEIGHTING FUNCTIONS; WINTER STORMS;

LINEAR REGRESSION;

STORMS;

EID: 79961092498     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010BAMS3191.1     Document Type: Article

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