A 10-yr climatology relating the locations of reported tornadoes to the quadrants of upper-level jet streaks

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 301-309

  Rose, Stanley F ^a   Hobbs, Peter V ^a   Locatelli, John D ^a   Stoelinga, Mark T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; JET AIRCRAFT; METEOROLOGY; TORNADOES;

JET STREAK; SYNOPTIC FEATURES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

FORECASTING METHOD; JET STREAM; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEVERE WEATHER; TORNADO;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1842790111     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2004)019<0301:AYCRTL>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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