The role of ice cover in heavy lake-effect snowstorms over the great lakes basin as simulated by RegCM4

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 148-165

  Vavrus, Steve ^a   Notaro, Michael ^a   Zarrin, Azar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC REANALYSIS DATA; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; DYNAMICAL MECHANISMS; LOWER TEMPERATURES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SURFACE ENERGY FLUXES; THEORETICAL PHYSICS; TURBULENT HEAT FLUXES;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE MODELS; DIGITAL STORAGE; ICE; SNOW;

LAKES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; ICE COVER; LOW TEMPERATURE; MOISTURE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SNOWSTORM; SURFACE ENERGY; WIND VELOCITY;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; GREAT LAKES BASIN; LAKE ONTARIO;

EID: 84874795858     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00107.1     Document Type: Article

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