Tornadoes from squall lines and bow echoes. Part I: Climatological distribution

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 23-34

  Trapp, Robert J ^a   Tessendorf, Sarah A ^b   Godfrey, Elaine Savageau ^c   Brooks, Harold E ^d  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RAIN; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BOW ECHOES; QUASI-LINEAR CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS (QLCS); RAINBANDS; SQUALL LINES;

TORNADOES;

CONVECTION; RADAR IMAGERY; SQUALL LINE; TORNADO;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 14744300273     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-835.1     Document Type: Article

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