Tornadoes in environments with small helicity and/or high LCL heights

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 579-594

  Davies, Jonathan M ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ACOUSTICS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; NATURAL CONVECTION; POTENTIAL ENERGY; THUNDERSTORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

LIFTING CONDENSATION LEVELS; MESOCYCLONE PROCESSES; NONMESOCYCLONE PROCESSES; STORM-RELATIVE HELICITY;

TORNADOES;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SUPERCELL; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTY; TORNADO;

EID: 33748563128     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF928.1     Document Type: Article

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