Comparison of numerical model and laboratory simulator Tornado wind fields with radar observations of the Spencer, South Dakota Tornado

86th AMS Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Gallus Jr , William A ^a   Haan, Fred ^a   Sarkar, Partha P ^a   Le, Kuai ^a   Wurman, Joshua ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center for Severe Weather Research Colorado   (United States)

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