Mesoscale aspects of the rapid intensification of a tornadic convective line across Central Florida: 22-23 February 1998

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 223-243

  Wasula, Alicia C ^a   Bosart, Lance F ^a   Schneider, Russell ^b   Weiss, Steven J ^b   Johns, Robert H ^b   Manikin, Geoffrey S ^c   Welsh, Patrick ^d  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; JETS; WIND;

COLD FRONT; FRONTOGENESIS; TORNADIC CONVECTIVE LINE;

TORNADOES;

ATMOSPHERIC FRONT; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; FRONTOGENESIS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; TORNADO; WIND SHEAR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; GULF OF MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34249068520     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF977.1     Document Type: Article

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