Severe convective wind environments

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 595-612

  Kuchera, Evan L ^a   Parker, Matthew D ^b,c  

^a Offutt AFB   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; THUNDERSTORMS; WIND EFFECTS;

DAMAGING WIND ALGORITHM; DOWNDRAFT WINDS; GUST-FRONT-NORMAL FLOW; INFLOW LAYER; SEVERE WIND FAILURE MODES;

WIND;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; THUNDERSTORM; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 33748544605     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF931.1     Document Type: Article

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