Fractal identification of supercell storms

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 14, 2002, Pages

  Féral, Laurent ^a   Sauvageot, Henri ^b  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STORMS;

CONVECTIVE STORMS; DOWNBURSTS; HEAVY RAINS; MULTICELL; RADAR DATA; SUPER CELL; SUPERCELL STORMS;

FRACTAL DIMENSION;

EID: 0042872487     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015260     Document Type: Article

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