A sensitivity study of hodograph-based methods for estimating supercell motion

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 954-970

  Ramsay, Hamish A ^a   Doswell III, Charles A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STORMS; VECTORS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

HODOGRAPH; STORM MOTION; SUPERCELL MOTION; WIND SHEAR;

METEOROLOGY;

ALGORITHM; FORECASTING METHOD; SUPERCELL; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 32044446469     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF889.1     Document Type: Article

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