The second verification of the origins of rotation in tornadoes experiment: VORTEX2

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1147-1170

  Wurman, Joshua ^a   Dowell, David ^b   Richardson, Yvette ^c   Markowski, Paul ^c   Rasmussen, Erik ^d   Burgess, Donald ^e   Wicker, Louis ^f   Bluestein, Howard B ^e  

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

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Rasmussen Systems   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^f NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLOON SOUNDING; DAMAGE SURVEYS; DISDROMETERS; DOPPLER LIDARS; DUAL-POLARIZATIONS; GROUND BASED; IN-FIELD; IN-SITU; MOBILE RADARS; MODELING STUDIES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PRELIMINARY DATA; RAPID SCAN; RARE EVENT; SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS; TORNADOGENESIS; UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS; WEATHER STATIONS; WIND FIELD;

EXPERIMENTS; THUNDERSTORMS;

TORNADOES;

EID: 84866422539     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00010.1     Document Type: Article

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