Tornadoes in the New York metropolitan region: Climatology and multiscale analysis of two events

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1326-1348

  Colle, Brian A ^a   Lombardo, Kelly A ^a   Tongue, Jeffrey S ^b   Goodman, William ^b   Vaz, Nelson ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Weather Service Eastern Region Headquarters   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT; CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; EVAPORATIVE COOLING; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; METROPOLITAN REGIONS; MULTI SCALE ANALYSIS; QUASI-LINEAR CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION;

CLIMATOLOGY; DOPPLER RADAR; EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS; STORMS;

TORNADOES;

AIRCRAFT; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DOPPLER RADAR; FRONTOGENESIS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; METROPOLITAN AREA; NOWCASTING; POTENTIAL ENERGY; TORNADO;

LONG ISLAND [NEW YORK]; NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874880680     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-12-00006.1     Document Type: Article

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