Potential vorticity diagnosis of the severe convective regime. Part IV: Comparison with modeling simulations of the Moore Tornado outbreak

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1612-1629

  Gold, David A ^a,b,c   Nielsen Gammon, John W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PPM Energy Inc   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; TORNADOES; TROPOSPHERE; VORTICITY;

POTENTIAL VORTICITY; STORM-RELATIVE HELICITY; TORNADIC CONVECTION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SEVERE WEATHER; TORNADO; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 44949121696     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2093.1     Document Type: Article

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