NASA's genesis and rapid intensification processes (GRIP) field experiment

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 345-363

  Braun, Scott A ^a   Kakar, Ramesh ^b   Zipser, Edward ^c   Heymsfield, Gerald ^a   Albers, Cerese ^d   Brown, Shannon ^e   Durden, Stephen L ^e   Guimond, Stephen ^a,f   Halverson, Jeffery ^g   Heymsfield, Andrew ^h   Ismail, Syed ⁱ   Lambrigtsen, Bjorn ^e   Miller, Timothy ^j   Tanelli, Simone ^e   Thomas, Janel ^g   Zawislak, Jon ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f OAK RIDGE ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^h NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

ⁱ NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^j NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIELD EXPERIMENT; HURRICANE FORMATIONS; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATIONS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; RAPID INTENSIFICATION; STORM ENVIRONMENTS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

HURRICANES; STORMS;

NASA;

EID: 84874907996     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00232.1     Document Type: Article

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