A reassessment of the percentage of tornadic mesocyclones

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 680-687

  Trapp, Robert J ^a   Stumpf, Gregory J ^b,c   Manross, Kevin L ^b,d  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c National Weather Service   (United States)

^d NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; STORMS; TORNADOES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

MESOCYCLONE DETECTION; TORNADIC MESOCYCLONES;

METEOROLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CYCLONE; TORNADO;

EID: 27544499258     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF864.1     Document Type: Article

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