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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A numerical simulation of a tornado-scale vortex in a three-dimensional cloud model
Abstract
dc:description"One of the more spectacular and elusive events of nature is the tornado. Usually spawned by a highly organized, lasting, and rotating thunderstorm called a ""supercell"", tornadoes are one of the most destructive atmospheric phenomena. Tornadoes almost always have length and time scales smaller than the measurable scales within the observing network of surface stations, conventional radar, Doppler radar and satellites. Therefore direct observations of tornadoes and their parent features are rarely obtained. Consequently, understanding of these phenomena will generally have to come from theoretical work, laboratory experiments, and numerical simulations."
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Atmospheric Sciences
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2011
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Wicker, Louis John
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Wilhelmson, Robert B.
Subjects
dc:subject × 3Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- Copyright 1990 Wicker, Louis John
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
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AAI9114463
(UMI)AAI9114463 - OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/23060