Spatial redistribution of U.S. Tornado activity between 1954 and 2013

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1681-1697

  Agee, Ernest ^a   Larson, Jennifer ^a   Childs, Samuel ^b   Marmo, Alexandra ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Atm Ocean Structure Phenomena; Climate change; Climate variability; Climatology; Physical Meteorology and Climatology; Tornadoes

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL WARMING; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

BOOTSTRAPPING METHOD; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SEASONAL ANALYSIS; SIGNIFICANCE TESTING; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TEMPORAL CHANGE; WARMING TRENDS;

TORNADOES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; METEOROLOGY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TORNADO; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING;

ALABAMA; INDIANA; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; TENNESSEE; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84985034420     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-15-0342.1     Document Type: Article

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