First WSR-88D documentation of an anticyclonic supercell with anticyclonic tornadoes: The Sunnyvale-Los Altos, California, tornadoes of 4 May 1998

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 129, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2805-2814

  Monteverdi, J P ^a   Blier, W ^a   Stumpf, G ^a   Pi, W ^a   Anderson, K ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BUOYANCY; PHOTOGRAPHY; VORTEX FLOW;

MESOCYCLONE DETECTION ALGORITHM (MDA);

TORNADOES;

ANTICYCLONE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUPERCELL; THUNDERSTORM; TORNADO;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ALTOS; SUNNYVALE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035505095     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2001)129<2805:FWDOAA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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