Severe Local Storms

✍ Scribed by David Atlas, D. Ray Booker, Horace Byers, R. H. Douglas, Tetsuya Fujita, Donald C. House, F. H. Ludlum, Joanne S. Malkus, Chester W. Newton, Yoshimitsu Ogura, Richard A. Schleusener, Bernard Vonnegut, R. T. Williams (auth.)

• Publisher: American Meteorological Society
• Year: 1963
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 258
• Series: Meteorological Monographs 5
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages N2-viii
Severe Local Storms: A Review....Pages 1-32
Dynamics of Severe Convective Storms....Pages 33-58
On the Interaction between Severe Storms and Large Cumulus Clouds....Pages 59-64
A Review of Numerical Modeling Research on Small Scale Convection in the Atmosphere....Pages 65-76
Analytical Mesometeorology: A Review....Pages 77-128
Modification of Convective Storms by Lee Waves....Pages 129-140
Forecasting Tornadoes and Severe Thunderstorms....Pages 141-156
Recent Hail Research: A Review....Pages 157-172
Hailstorm Characterization and the Crystal Structure of Hail....Pages 173-176
Radar Analysis of Severe Storms....Pages 177-223
Some Facts and Speculations Concerning the Origin and Role of Thunderstorm Electricity....Pages 224-241
Severe Local Storms: In Retrospect....Pages 242-247

✦ Subjects

Atmospheric Sciences; Meteorology; Natural Hazards; Thermodynamics