The need for an improved documentation of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes in South America

86th AMS Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  De Lima Nascimento, Ernani ^a   Doswell III, Charles A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE TECNOLÓGICA FEDERAL DO PARANÁ   (Brazil)

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

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