Radar-based severe storm climatology for Austrian complex orography related to vertical wind shear and atmospheric instability

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 158-159, Issue , 2015, Pages 216-230

  Kaltenboeck, Rudolf ^a,b   Steinheimer, Martin ^a  

^a Austrocontrol Aviation Weather Service   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Austria; Climatology; Mountainous orography; Severe thunderstorms; Vertical wind shear classification; Weather radar

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RAIN; REFLECTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THUNDERSTORMS;

AUSTRIA; MOUNTAINOUS OROGRAPHY; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; SPATIAL ARRANGEMENTS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR; WEATHER RADAR DATA;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATOLOGY; MOUNTAIN; NOWCASTING; RADAR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THUNDERSTORM; VERTICAL MOVEMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND SHEAR;

ALPS; AUSTRIA;

EID: 84961292144     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2014.08.006     Document Type: Article

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