On the relationship of Tornado path length and width to intensity

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 310-319

  Brooks, Harold E ^a  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; METEOROLOGY; TORNADOES; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

NONSTATIONARITY; TORNADO PATH LENGTH;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PATH ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TORNADO; WEIBULL THEORY;

EID: 1842790101     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2004)019<0310:OTROTP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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