Long-term morphological changes in simulated supercells following mergers with nascent supercells in directionally varying shear

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 471-499

  Hastings, Ryan ^a   Richardson, Yvette ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; MERGING; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BOW ECHOES; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; KEY CONTROLLING FACTORS; LONG-TERM OUTCOME; MERGING SYSTEMS; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; THUNDERSTORM FORECASTING;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

LONG-TERM CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SUPERCELL; THUNDERSTORM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84959292521     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-15-0193.1     Document Type: Article

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