Keyword

tornadoes

Description: Tornadoes are violently rotating columns of air extending from thunderstorms to the ground, studied as severe meteorological hazards.

Primary topic: Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (47%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q8081

OpenAlex ID: keywords/tornadoes

Characterization of ceramics

1971 · Ronald E. Loehman · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 1,675

Tornadoes and Downbursts in the Context of Generalized Planetary Scales

1981 · T. Theodore Fujita · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 912

A Baseline Climatology of Sounding-Derived Supercell andTornado Forecast Parameters

1998 · Erik N. Rasmussen, David O. Blanchard · Weather and Forecasting · 756

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Close Proximity Soundings within Supercell Environments Obtained from the Rapid Update Cycle

2003 · Richard L. Thompson, Roger Edwards, et al. · Weather and Forecasting · 717

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The spatial distribution of severe thunderstorm and tornado environments from global reanalysis data

2003 · Harold E Brooks, James W Lee, et al. · Atmospheric Research · 657

The Public Health Consequences of Disasters

2000 · Eric K. Noji · Prehospital and Disaster Medicine · 607

Meteorology Today: An Introduction to Weather, Climate, and the Environment

1985 · Chandler Ahrens, Henson Robert · 588

Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge

2012 · Kenneth E. Kunkel, Thomas R. Karl, et al. · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 533

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Landscape Patterns and Legacies Resulting from Large, Infrequent Forest Disturbances

1998 · David R. Foster, Dennis H. Knight, et al. · Ecosystems · 485

Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Real-Time Decision-Making for High-Impact Weather

2017 · Amy McGovern, Kimberly L. Elmore, et al. · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 443

Robust increases in severe thunderstorm environments in response to greenhouse forcing

2013 · Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Martin Scherer, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 419

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Do Fund Managers Misestimate Climatic Disaster Risk

2019 · Shashwat Alok, Nitin Kumar, et al. · Review of Financial Studies · 391

Overview of ESSL's severe convective storms research using the European Severe Weather Database ESWD

2008 · Nikolai Dotzek, Pieter Groenemeijer, et al. · Atmospheric Research · 383

Convective-Scale Warn-on-Forecast System

2009 · David J. Stensrud, Ming Xue, et al. · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 379

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Epidemiology of Tropical Cyclones: The Dynamics of Disaster, Disease, and Development

2005 · James M. Shultz, Jill Russell, et al. · Epidemiologic Reviews · 372

The 29 June 2000 Supercell Observed during STEPS. Part II: Lightning and Charge Structure

2005 · Kyle C. Wiens, Steven A. Rutledge, et al. · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 370

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Severe thunderstorms and climate change

2012 · H.E. Brooks · Atmospheric Research · 368

Convective Modes for Significant Severe Thunderstorms in the Contiguous United States. Part I: Storm Classification and Climatology

2012 · Bryan T. Smith, Richard L. Thompson, et al. · Weather and Forecasting · 358

Mesoscale Organization of Springtime Rainstorms in Oklahoma

1990 · Robert A. Houze, Bradley F. Smull, et al. · Monthly Weather Review · 354

Proposed characterization of tornadoes and hurricanes by area and intensity

1971 · Tetsuya Theodore. Fujita · NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) · 329

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The Atmosphere: An Introduction to Meteorology

1991 · Keith Boucher, F. K. Lutgens, et al. · Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers · 319

Convective Modes for Significant Severe Thunderstorms in the Contiguous United States. Part II: Supercell and QLCS Tornado Environments

2012 · Richard L. Thompson, Bryan T. Smith, et al. · Weather and Forecasting · 304

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The behavior of total lightning activity in severe Florida thunderstorms

1999 · Earle Williams, Bob Boldi, et al. · Atmospheric Research · 301

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Moving to Higher Ground: Migration Response to Natural Disasters in the Early Twentieth Century

2012 · Leah Platt Boustan, Matthew E Kahn, et al. · American Economic Review · 299

The formation, character and changing nature of mesoscale convective systems

2020 · Russ S. Schumacher, Kristen L. Rasmussen · Nature Reviews Earth & Environment · 291

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Citation count: 80,010