Environmental atmospheric conditions under which a Tornado formed over Hokkaido Island, Japan on 7 Nov. 2006, detected from a supercell reproduced by a cloud-resolving model

12th Conference on Mesoscale Processes

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Kato, Teruyuki ^a   Niino, Hiroshi ^b  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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