Bow echo mesovortices. Part I: Process that influence their damaging potential

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1497-1513

  Atkins, Nolan T ^a   St Laurent, Michael ^a  

^a LYNDON STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOW ECHO EVENT; BOW ECHOES; COLD POOL; CONVECTIVE VORTICES; CORIOLIS; GRID LEVELS; HORIZONTAL SHEAR; MAXIMUM VERTICAL VORTICITY; MESOSCALE; MESOVORTEX; SENSITIVITY SIMULATION; SURFACE WINDS; WIND SPEED;

IMPACT STRENGTH; LAKES;

EXPERIMENTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; CORIOLIS FORCE; FORECASTING METHOD; INFLOW; JET; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VORTEX FLOW; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 68249144489     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2649.1     Document Type: Article

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