The numerical simulation of an unbalanced jetlet and its role in the Palm Sunday 1994 Tornado outbreak in Alabama and Georgia

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2133-2165

  Kaplan, Michael L ^a   Lin, Yuh Lang ^a   Hamilton, David W ^a   Rozumalski, Robert A ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; TORNADO;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032457577     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<2133:TNSOAU>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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