Relationships between tornado intensity and various wind and thermodynamic variables

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 360-371

  Colquhoun, John R ^a   Riley, Philip A ^b  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THERMODYNAMICS; TORNADOES; WIND SHEAR;

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; TORNADO; WIND;

EID: 0030432153     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1996)011<0360:RBTIAV>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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