This book is a focused, 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.
Author(s): Howard B. Bluestein (auth.)
Series: Springer Praxis Books
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 456
Tags: Atmospheric Sciences; Meteorology; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry; Geoecology/Natural Processes
Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
Introduction....Pages 1-25
The basic equations....Pages 27-93
Ordinary-cell convective storms....Pages 95-164
Supercells....Pages 165-264
Mesoscale convective systems....Pages 265-306
Tornadoes....Pages 307-416
Forecasting and future work....Pages 417-427
Back Matter....Pages 429-456