A preliminary survey of rear-flank descending reflectivity cores in supercell storms

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 923-938

  Rasmussen, Erik N ^a,d   Straka, Jerry M ^a   Gilmore, Matthew S ^b   Davies Jones, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REFLECTION; TORNADOES;

DESCENDING REFLECTIVITY CORES (DRC); SUPERCELL STORMS; TORNADO FORMATION; VERIFICATION OF THE ORIGINS OF ROTATION IN TORNADOES EXPERIMENT (VORTEX);

STORMS;

CLIMATOLOGY; REFLECTIVITY; STORM; SUPERCELL; TORNADO;

KANSAS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846194629     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF962.1     Document Type: Article

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