Near-ground pressure and wind measurements in Tornadoes

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2570-2588

  Karstens, Christopher D ^a   Samaras, Timothy M ^b   Lee, Bruce D ^c   Gallus Jr , William A ^a   Finley, Catherine A ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Technical Systems   (United States)

^c Product Research and Development at NextEra Analytics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND PRESSURE; GUST FRONTS; IN-SITU; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; REAR-FLANK; SUPER CELL; VORTEX STRUCTURES; WIND MEASUREMENT;

PROBES; STORMS; VIDEO RECORDING; VORTEX FLOW;

TORNADOES;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; GUST; NUMERICAL MODEL; TORNADO; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTEX FLOW; WIND MEASUREMENT;

EID: 77958493818     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3201.1     Document Type: Article

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