Circulations, bounded weak echo regions, and horizontal vortices observed within long-lake-axis-parallel-lake-effect storms by the doppler on wheels

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2821-2840

  Steiger, Scott M ^a   Schrom, Robert ^a   Stamm, Alfred ^a   Ruth, Daniel ^a   Jaszka, Keith ^a   Kress, Timothy ^a   Rathbun, Brett ^a   Frame, Jeffrey ^b   Wurman, Joshua ^c   Kosiba, Karen ^c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER ON WHEELS; DOPPLER VELOCITY; HORIZONTAL SHEAR; MOBILE RADARS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WEAK ECHO REGIONS;

LAKES; STORMS; WHEELS;

VORTEX FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DOPPLER RADAR; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STORM; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VORTICITY;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ERIE; LAKE ONTARIO;

EID: 84881292728     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00226.1     Document Type: Article

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