The "Owl Horn" radar signature in developing Southern Plains supercells

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2608-2634

  Kramar, Matthew R ^a,b   Bluestein, Howard B ^a   Pazmany, Andrew L ^c,d   Tuttle, John D ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NOAA National Weather Service Houston Galveston   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d Prosensing   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; VORTEX FLOW; WIND;

OWL HORN RADAR SIGNATURE; PLAN POSITION INDICATOR (PPI);

STORMS;

RADAR IMAGERY; REFLECTIVITY; SUPERCELL; WIND FIELD;

BUBO VIRGINIANUS; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 27144491406     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR2992.1     Document Type: Article

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