Assessing a tornado climatology from global tornado intensity distributions

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 585-596

  Feuerstein, Bernold ^a   Dotzek, Nikolai ^b   Grieser, Jürgen ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TORNADOES; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CLIMATOLOGICAL PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL TORNADO INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODELING; TORNADO INTENSITY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

TORNADO;

EID: 16344379701     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-3285.1     Document Type: Article

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