A baseline climatology of sounding-derived supercell and tornado forecast parameters

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1148-1164

  Rasmussen, Erik N ^a,b   Blanchard, David O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b Building 3   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHTNING; SOUNDING APPARATUS; STORMS; THUNDERSTORMS; WIND;

SUPERCELLS;

TORNADOES;

CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING METHOD; SUPERCELL; TORNADO; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0032434901     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1998)013<1148:ABCOSD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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