Tornado identification using a neuro-fuzzy approach to integrate shear and spectral signatures

23rd AMS Conference on Severe Local Storms, SLS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Wang, Yadong ^a,b   Yu, Tian You ^a   Yeary, Mark ^a   Shapiro, Alan M ^b   Nemati, Shamim ^b   Foster, Michael ^c   Andra Jr , David L ^c  

^a University of Oklahoma   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c National Weather Service   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPECTRAL SIGNATURES; TORNADO IDENTIFICATION; VELOCITY SHEAR;

FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

TORNADOES;

EID: 84858470864     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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