Impact of dual-polarization radar technology and twitter on the hattiesburg, mississippi tornado

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 585-592

  Cates, Alexis L ^a   Arnold, Brent W ^a   Cooper, Guy Paul ^a   Yeager, Violet ^a   Stake, Josh ^a   Ali, Mohammed ^a   Calderone, Richard C ^a   Wilkinson, James ^a   Hsu, Edbert ^b   Parrillo, Steven ^c   Piper, Steven ^a   Subbarao, Italo ^a  

^a William Carey University   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster technology; Emergency preparedness; Risk communication; Tornadoes; Traumatic injury

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISASTER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EQUIPMENT; FORECASTING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION; TIME; TORNADO; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

DISASTERS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTERNET; MISSISSIPPI; RADAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TECHNOLOGY; TIME FACTORS; TORNADOES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84896540218     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2013.113     Document Type: Article

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