The VDAC technique: A variational method for detecting and characterizing convective vortices in multiple-doppler radar data

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2593-2613

  Potvin, Corey K ^a   Shapiro, Alan ^a   Biggerstaff, Michael I ^a   Wurman, Joshua M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

In situ observations; Mesocyclones; Radars Radar observations; Tornadoes; Variational analysis; Vortices

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; CONVECTIVE VORTICES; ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; LINEAR DIVERGENCE; LINEAR SHEAR FLOW; MESOCYCLONES; MODEL PARAMETERS; RADAR COVERAGE; RADAR DATA; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; RADIAL WINDS; RANKINE VORTICES; SPACE AND TIME; TRANSLATIONAL VELOCITY; UNIFORM FLOW; VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS; VARIATIONAL METHODS; VORTEX DETECTION; WIND FIELD;

COST ACCOUNTING; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST FUNCTIONS; DOPPLER EFFECT; DOPPLER RADAR; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHEAR FLOW; STORMS; TORNADOES;

VORTEX FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CYCLONE; DOPPLER RADAR; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHEAR FLOW; TORNADO; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 80052421538     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011MWR3638.1     Document Type: Article

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