Analysis of tornado characteristics in the state of São Paulo for the improvement of an automatic alert system

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

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1859-1868

  Held, Gerhard ^a   Gomes, Ana Maria ^a   Naccarato, Kleber P ^b   Pinto Jr , Osmar ^b   De Lima Nascimento, Ernani ^c   Correia, Adelmo Antonio ^a   Marcelino, Isabela P V O ^d  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

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