Convective modes for significant severe thunderstorms in the contiguous United States. Part I: Storm classification and climatology

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1114-1135

  Smith, Bryan T ^a   Thompson, Richard L ^a   Grams, Jeremy S ^a   Broyles, Chris ^b   Brooks, Harold E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convective storms; Forecasting techniques; Operational forecasting

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE STORMS; DISCRETE CELLS; FILTERING PROCESS; FLORIDA; FORECASTING TECHNIQUES; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; HORIZONTAL GRID; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATE; LOWER FREQUENCIES; OPERATIONAL FORECASTING; QUASI-LINEAR CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; RADAR DATA; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; RAPID UPDATE CYCLE MODELS; SEASONAL PATTERNS; SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS; STORM CLASSIFICATION; SUPER CELL; WIND EVENTS;

CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; THUNDERSTORMS;

TORNADOES;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; THUNDERSTORM; TORNADO;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84868306100     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-11-00115.1     Document Type: Article

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