The 12 May 2004 Harper, KS Tornado: Analysis of dow radar observations of the low level wind field

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

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1669-1675

  Kosiba, Karen A ^a   Trapp, Robert J ^a   Wurman, Joshua M ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center for Severe Weather Research Colorado   (United States)

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