A clarification of vortex breakdown and tornadogenesis

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 888-895

  Trapp, R Jeffrey ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TORNADO; VORTEX; VORTICITY;

EID: 0034110472     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<0888:ACOVBA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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