The superior, Nebraska, supercell during BAMEX

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1095-1106

  Wakimoto, Roger M ^a   Cai, Huaqing ^b   Murphey, Hanne V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER VELOCITIES; MESOCYCLONE; SUPERCELL STORMS; VERTICAL VORTICITY;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; DOPPLER RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SATELLITES; THUNDERSTORMS; VORTEX FLOW;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 4444295332     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-85-8-1095     Document Type: Article

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