Observations of Tornadoes and Other Convective Phenomena with a Mobile, 3-mm Wavelength, Doppler Radar: The Spring 1999 Field Experiment

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2939-2951

  Bluestein, Howard B ^a   Pazmany, Andrew L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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EID: 0001365557     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(2000)081<2939:OOTAOC>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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