The multiple-vortex structure of a tornado

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 473-505

  Wurman, Joshua ^a  

^a School of Meteorology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; SPEED; VORTEX FLOW; WIND;

DOPPLER VELOCITY;

TORNADOES;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; RADAR; TORNADO; VORTEX;

OKLAHOMA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036614536     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2002)017<0473:TMVSOA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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