The vertical structure of a tornado near Happy, Texas, on 5 May 2002: High-resolution, mobile, W-band, doppler radar observations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2325-2337

  Bluestein, Howard B ^a,b   Weiss, Christopher C ^a   Pazmany, Andrew L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; DOPPLER EFFECT; RADAR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIRFLOW; DOPPLER VELOCITY; RANGE-HEIGHT INDICATORS (RHI); SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS;

TORNADOES;

AIRFLOW; DOPPLER RADAR; RADAR ALTIMETRY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TORNADO; WIND FIELD;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 7744238614     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<2325:TVSOAT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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