Land surface heterogeneity signature in tornadoclimatology? An illustrative analysis over Indiana, 1950-2012

Earth Interactions

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1-32

  Kellner, Olivia ^a   Niyogi, Dev ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Land surface heterogeneity; Land surface interactions; Storm reports; Tornado climatology; Tornado day; Tornadoes and population; Urban storm interactions

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; LAND USE; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RAIN; STORMS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANTECEDENT RAINFALL; LAND SURFACE; LAND USE/ LAND COVERS; LANDUSE CLASSIFICATIONS; POPULATION DENSITIES; SEVERE CONVECTIONS; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

TORNADOES;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GIS; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND SURFACE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STORM; TORNADO;

GIS; HAZARDS; LAND USE; MAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; METEOROLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

INDIANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84900407957     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2013EI000548.1     Document Type: Article

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