Radar and damage analysis of severe bow echoes observed during BAMEX

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 791-806

  Wheatley, Dustan M ^a   Trapp, Robert J ^a   Atkins, Nolan T ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LYNDON STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER RADAR; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; WIND EFFECTS;

BOW ECHO; BOW ECHO AND MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE VORTEX; BOW ECHO APEX; BOW-SHAPED CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DAMAGE ANALYSIS; DOPPLER IMAGE; MESOVORTEX WIND; RADAR ANALYSIS; WEATHER SURVEILLANCE RADAR;

METEOROLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; RADAR; WIND;

EID: 33646265536     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3100.1     Document Type: Article

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