Observations of wall cloud formation in supercell thunderstorms during VORTEX2

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4823-4838

  Atkins, Nolan T ^a   Glidden, Eva M ^a   Nicholson, Timothy M ^a  

^a LYNDON STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clouds; Supercells

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS;

CLOUD BASE; CLOUD FORMATION; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DATA COLLECTION; INTEGRATED ANALYSIS; ROTATING WALLS; SUPER CELL; SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS;

TORNADOES;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CYCLOGENESIS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SUPERCELL; THUNDERSTORM; TORNADO;

EID: 84916202629     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-14-00125.1     Document Type: Article

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