An example of the use of mobile, Doppler radar data for tornado verification

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 884-891

  French, Michael M ^a   Bluestein, Howard B ^a   Wicker, Louis J ^b   Dowell, David C ^c,e   Kramar, Matthew R ^d,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies ^*  (United States)

^d NOAA National Weather Service Houston Galveston   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^f NOAA/National Weather Service Baltimore/Washington Weather Forecast Office   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE SURVEYS; GROUND BASED; HIGH RESOLUTION; SQUALL LINES; SUPER CELL; TORNADO DAMAGE;

DOPPLER EFFECT; DOPPLER RADAR; LOCATION; RADAR; STORMS; SURVEYS;

TORNADOES;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DOPPLER RADAR; STORM; SUPERCELL; TORNADO;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69949187144     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008WAF2222147.1     Document Type: Article

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