Partly cloudy with a chance of migration weather, radars, and aeroecology

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 669-686

  Chilson, Phillip B ^a   Frick, Winifred F ^b   Kelly, Jeffrey F ^a   Howard, Kenneth W ^c   Larkin, Ronald P ^d   Diehl, Robert H ^e   Westbrook, John K ^f   Adam Kelly, T ^g   Kunz, Thomas H ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^f SOUTHERN PLAINS AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^g DeTect Inc   (United States)

^h BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADAR OBSERVATIONS; TEMPORAL DOMAIN;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; METEOROLOGY;

ANIMALS;

EID: 84861439364     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00099.1     Document Type: Article

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