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Main Title Severe Convective Storms and Tornadoes Observations and Dynamics / [electronic resource] :
Type EBOOK
Author Bluestein, Howard B.
Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
Year Published 2013
Call Number QC851-999
ISBN 9783642053818
Subjects Geography ; Remote sensing ; Ecology
Internet Access
Description Access URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05381-8
Collation XXVII, 456 p. 241 illus., 144 illus. in color. online resource.
Notes
Due to license restrictions, this resource is available to EPA employees and authorized contractors only
Contents Notes
Basic equations -- Observing systems and the analysis and interpretation of their data -- Ordinary-cell convective storms -- Supercells -- Mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) -- Tornadoes -- Forecasting -- Areas of future research -- Theory. This book is a focussed, comprehensive reference on recent research on severe convective storms and tornadoes. It will contain many illustrations of severe storm phenomena from mobile Doppler radars, operational Doppler radars, photographs and numerical simulations.