The origin of severe winds in a tornadic bow-echo storm over northern Switzerland

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 192-207

  Schmid, Willi ^a   Schiesser, Hans Heinrich ^a   Furger, Markus ^b   Jenni, Mario ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STORM; TORNADO; WIND;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0034105061     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<0192:TOOSWI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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