Climatological estimates of local daily tornado probability for the United States

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 626-640

  Brooks, Harold E ^a   Doswell III, Charles A ^b   Kay, Michael P ^c  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CoopInstMesoscale MeteorolStuds ^*  (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TORNADOES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

TORNADO PROBABILITY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATOLOGY; EXTREME EVENT; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TORNADO;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141482354     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2003)018<0626:CEOLDT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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