The occurrence of Tornadoes in supercells interacting with boundaries during VORTEX-95

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 13, Issue 3 PART2, 1998, Pages 852-859

  Markowski, Paul M ^a   Rasmussen, Erik N ^b   Straka, Jerry M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESOCYCLONES;

VORTEX FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

TORNADOES;

BOUNDARY LAYER; SUPERCELL; TORNADO;

EID: 0032173186     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1998)013<0852:tootis>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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