Improving Tornado Warnings with the Federal Aviation Administration's Terminal Doppler Weather Radar

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 861-874

  Vasiloff, Steven V ^a  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0008851932     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(2001)082<0861:ITWWTF>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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