The SAARC STORM: A coordinated field experiment on severe thunderstorm observations and regional modeling over the South Asian region

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 603-617

  Das, Someshwar ^a   Mohanty, U C ^b   Tyagi, Ajit ^c   Sikka, D R ^d   Joseph, P V ^e   Rathore, L S ^f   Habib, Arjumand ^g,h   Baidya, Saraju K ⁱ   Sonam, Kinzang ^d   Sarkar, Abhijit ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTING   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BHUBANESWAR   (India)

^c MINISTRY OF EARTH SCIENCES   (India)

^d Department of Atmospheric Sciences Cochin University of Science and Technology ^*  (Bhutan)

^e Department of Physics   (India)

^f Indian Meteorological Department   (India)

^g SAARC Meteorological Research Centre   (Bangladesh)

^h Bangladesh Meteorological Department   (Bangladesh)

ⁱ Technology and Environment   (Nepal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; THUNDERSTORMS;

EXPERIMENTAL CAMPAIGN; EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; NORTHEASTERN INDIA; REGIONAL MODEL; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS; WIDESPREAD DAMAGE;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84904186234     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00237.1     Document Type: Article

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