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Recent multiple Doppler radar observations of supercell thunderstorms have documented that a particular dynamic structure consistently develops when a storm enters its tornadic phase. This structure is characterized by a downdraft outflow which wraps around the center of storm circulation at low levels and an associated distortion from a single cell to a two-cell up-draft structure (Brandes, 1978; Lemon and Doswell, 1979). In this study we investigate the evolution of a storm’s tornadic phase through high resolution numerical simulations initiated within the central portion of a 3D cloud model mature thunderstorm.
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Klemp, J.B., Rotunno, R. (1982). High Resolution Numerical Simulations of the Tornadic Region Within a Mature Thunderstorm. In: Bengtsson, L., Lighthill, J. (eds) Intense Atmospheric Vortices. Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81866-0_15
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