Hook echoes and rear-flank downdrafts: A review

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 852-876

  Markowski, Paul M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

TORNADOGENESIS;

TORNADOES;

SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TORNADO;

EID: 0036537709     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2002)130<0852:HEARFD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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