Orographic Effects on Supercell: Development and Structure, Intensity and Tracking

2016/03/01 by Galen M. Smith, Smith, Galen M., Yuh-Lang Lin +4
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph) #Climate variability and models #FOS: Physical sciences #Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations #Precipitation Measurement and Analysis #physics.ao-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1603.00539

Presented as Smith, G. M., Y.-L. Lin, and Y. Rastigejev, 2014: Orographic Effects on Supercell: Development, Structure, Intensity, and Tracking. 16th American Meteorological Society Conference on Mountain Meteorology, Aug. 17-22, San Diego, CA

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Abstract

Terrain effects on thunderstorms, which are conducive to tornado formation, are investigated.

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