High-resolution, mobile, W-band, Doppler-radar observations of the vertical structure of a tornado near Attica, Kansas on 12 May 2004

11th Conference on Mesoscale Processes and the 32nd Conference on Radar Meteorology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 191-199

  Bluestein, Howard B ^a   Weiss, Christopher C ^a,c   Holthaus, Eric ^a,d   Frasier, Stephen ^b   Pazmany, Andrew L ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e ProSensing Inc   (United States)

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