Tornadoes with cold core 500-mb lows

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1051-1062

  Davies, Jonathan M ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; HEATING; METEOROLOGY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COLD CORE TORNADOES; UNITED STATES; VERTICAL SHEAR;

TORNADOES;

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; BUOYANCY; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TORNADO;

KANSAS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846228408     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF967.1     Document Type: Article

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