A severe thunderstorm climatology for Australia and associated thunderstorm environments

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 143-158

  Allen, John T ^a   Karoly, David J ^a   Mills, Graham A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; DATABASE; HAIL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; THUNDERSTORM; TORNADO; WIND FIELD; WIND VELOCITY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84858199522     PISSN: 1836716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22499/2.6103.001     Document Type: Article

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