The tornadic vortex signature: An update

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 525-530

  Brown, Rodger A ^a   Wood, Vincent T ^a  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Radars Radar observations; Tornadoes

Indexed keywords

CORE REGION; DATA COLLECTION; DOPPLER VELOCITY; ELEVATION ANGLE; HALF POWER BEAMWIDTH; RANKINE VORTICES; REFLECTIVITY PROFILES; SUPER RESOLUTION; TORNADIC VORTICES; VORTEX CENTERS; VORTEX MODEL; WEATHER SURVEILLANCE RADAR-1988 DOPPLER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER RADAR; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REFLECTION; TORNADOES; VELOCITY;

VORTEX FLOW;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA INTERPRETATION; DOPPLER RADAR; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RESOLUTION; TORNADO; VORTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84862983267     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-11-00111.1     Document Type: Article

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