Mesoscale Aspects of Winter Weather Forecasting:
Polar Lows - Ungava Bay, Northern Canada 01-03 December 2000

A special thanks to Ron Goodson and Ed Hudson with the MSC for all of their efforts in data collection, content writing, and review.

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