Doppler radar analysis of a tornadic miniature supercell during the landfall of typhoon mujigae (2015) in South China

TY - JOUR

T1 - Doppler radar analysis of a tornadic miniature supercell during the landfall of typhoon mujigae (2015) in South China

AU - Zhao, Kun

AU - Wang, Mingjun

AU - Xue, Ming

AU - Fu, Peiling

AU - Yang, Zhonglin

AU - Chen, Xiaomin

AU - Zhang, Yi

AU - Lee, Wen Chau

AU - Zhang, Fuqing

AU - Lin, Qing

AU - Li, Zhaohui

N1 - Funding Information: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. This work was primarily supported by the National Fundamental Research 973 Program of China (Grants 2013CB430101 and 2015CB452801), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants 41322032, 41275031 and 41230421), and the Social Commonwealth Research Program (Grant GYHY201006007). We would like to acknowledge the China Meteorological Administration for organizing damage surveys and collecting the radar data used in this study. Special thanks also go to everyone who took part in the tornado damage survey and shared their valuable pictures and videos of the tornado damage. We would also like to acknowledge Huang Sheng, who shared his useful videos of the tornado. Funding Information: Key Lab of Mesoscale Severe Weather/Ministry of Education of China, and School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, and State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather and Joint Center for Atmospheric Radar Research of CMA/NJU, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China; Xue—Key Lab of Mesoscale Severe Weather/Ministry of Education of China, and School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, and Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms and School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma; Lee—Earth Observing Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research,* Boulder, Colorado; F. Zhang— Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, and Center for Advanced Data Assimilation and Predictability Techniques, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; Lin and Li—Guangdong Meteorological Observatory, and Foshan Tornado Research Center, Guangdong Meteorological Service, Guangzhou, China * The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Dr. Kun Zhao, [email protected]

PY - 2017/9

Y1 - 2017/9

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85031326601

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85031326601#tab=citedBy

U2 - 10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00301.1

DO - 10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00301.1

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85031326601

SN - 0003-0007

VL - 98

SP - 1821

EP - 1831

JO - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

JF - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

IS - 9

ER -