Discriminating among non severe, severe, and derecho-producing mesoscale convective system environments

86th AMS Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Cohen, Ariel E ^a   Coniglio, Michael C ^b   Corfidi, Stephen F ^c   Corfidi, Sarah J ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DERECHO; GOOD DISCRIMINATORS; HORIZONTAL DISTRIBUTION; LAPSE RATE; MEAN WIND SPEED; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; PROPAGATION VECTOR; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; WARM SEASONS; WIND SHEARS;

STORMS;

EID: 77949276343     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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