Tornado warning decisions using phased-array radar data

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 57-78

  Heinselman, Pamela ^a   Ladue, Daphne ^b   Kingfield, Darrel M ^b   Hoffman, Robert ^c  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN AND MACHINE COGNITION   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimental design; Operational forecasting; Radars Radar observations

Indexed keywords

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; JOB ANALYSIS; RADAR; SURVEILLANCE RADAR; TORNADOES;

COGNITIVE TASK ANALYSIS; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICES; OPERATIONAL FORECASTING; PHASED ARRAY RADARS; PROBABILITY OF DETECTION; PROBABILITY OF FALSE ALARM; RADARS/RADAR OBSERVATIONS; WEATHER SURVEILLANCE RADAR-1988 DOPPLER;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DOPPLER RADAR; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; SUPERCELL; TORNADO; WARNING SYSTEM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84923303389     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-14-00042.1     Document Type: Article

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