Severe Convective Storms and Tornadoes [electronic resource] : Observations and Dynamics / by Howard B. Bluestein.
Material type: TextSeries: Springer Praxis BooksPublication details: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013Description: XXVII, 456 p. 241 illus., 144 illus. in color. online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783642053818Subject(s): geography | Remote sensing | Ecology | earth sciences | Atmospheric Sciences | meteorology | Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry | Geoecology/Natural ProcessesDDC classification: 551.5 LOC classification: QC851-999Online resources: Click here to access onlineBasic 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.
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