Ground-based velocity track display (GBVTD) analysis of W-band Doppler radar data in a tornado near Stockton, Kansas, on 15 May 1999

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 783-800

  Tanamachi, Robin L ^a   Bluestein, Howard B ^a   Lee, Wen Chau ^b   Bell, Michael ^b   Pazmany, Andrew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c ProSensing Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER RADAR; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; TORNADOES; VORTEX FLOW; WIND;

BURGERS-ROTT VORTEX; GROUND-BASED VELOCITY TRACK DISPLAY (GBVTD); RADIUS OF MAXIMUM WIND (RMW); TORNADO LIFE CYCLE; TORNADOGENESIS;

METEOROLOGY;

CYCLOGENESIS; DOPPLER RADAR; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; RADIAL FLOW; REFLECTIVITY; TORNADO; VORTEX; VORTICITY; WIND PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY;

KANSAS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33847342951     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3325.1     Document Type: Article

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