ELDORA observations during VORTEX 95

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1465-1481

  Wakimoto, Roger M ^a   Lee, Wen Chau ^b   Bluestein, Howard B ^c   Liu, Ching Hwang ^a   Hildebrand, Peter H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER RADAR; ELDORA; STORM; TORNADO; VORTEX 95;

EID: 0030431559     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077<1465:EODV>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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