Severe Convective Storms and Tornadoes: Observations and Dynamics [Paperback]

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.

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.

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Meteorologist Bluestein (Univ. of Oklahoma) has researched tornadoes and severe conductive storms for more than 30 years. & This book is a welcome and useful addition to the literature and will be of great value to atmospheric science students and practitioners. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. (S. C. Pryor, Choice, Vol. 51 (7), March, 2014)

I have been funded by the National Science Foundation continuously since 1977 to study various aspects of severe convective storms and tornadoes. My research group pioneered the use of instruments to study tornadoes close up from a ground-based mobile platform. In particular, for the past twenty years we have been using increasingly sophisticated mobile Doppler radars mounted on vans and trucks to determine the fine-scale structure of tornadoes and to document their formation. To a lesser extent, I have also used numerical models to study the behavior of severe convective storms using controlled numerical simulations. I have single-authored the trade book TORNADO ALLEY: MONSTER STORMS OF THE GREAT PLAINS (Oxford Univ. Press) and a two-volume textbook SYNOPTIC-DYNAMIC METEOROLOGY IN MIDLATITUDES (Oxford Univ. Press). I wrote these books while here at the University of Oklahoma and while on various sabbaticals and other leaves at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO. I have also authored or co-autl“`