Low-frequency atmospheric acoustic energy associated with vortices produced by thunderstorms

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 241-263

  Bedard Jr , Alfred J ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; KINEMATICS; RADAR; THUNDERSTORMS; VORTEX FLOW;

ACOUSTIC ENERGY; DATASETS; INFRASONIC SIGNALS; VORTEX SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACOUSTICS; INFRASONICS; THUNDERSTORM; TORNADO; VORTEX;

EID: 14344254991     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-2851.1     Document Type: Article

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