Forecasting the maintenance of mesoscale convective systems

23rd AMS Conference on Severe Local Storms, SLS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Coniglio, Michael C ^a,b   Bardon, Melissa ^a   Virts, Katrina ^c   Weiss, Steven J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

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