20 may 2013 moore, oklahoma, tornado: Damage survey and analysis

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1229-1237

  Burgess, Donald ^a,d   Ortega, Kiel ^a,d   Stumpf, Greg ^a,b   Garfield, Gabe ^a,b   Karstens, Chris ^a,d   Meyer, Tiffany ^a,b   Smith, Brandon ^a,d   Speheger, Doug ^b   Ladue, Jim ^b   Smith, Rick ^b   Marshall, Tim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b National Weather Service   (United States)

^c Haag Engineering Co   (United States)

^d NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE DETECTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURVEYING; TORNADOES;

DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS; DAMAGE INDICATOR; DAMAGE SURVEYS; GROUND SURVEYS; HIGH RESOLUTION; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICES; PRIVATE COMPANIES; TORNADO DAMAGE;

SURVEYS;

DAMAGE; EXTREME EVENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURVEY; TORNADO;

OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84910631887     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-14-00039.1     Document Type: Article

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