The Multiple-Vortex Structure of a Tornado

By J. Wurman. 2002

150 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Computational Mechanics

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In Atmospheric Science

1. K. Kosiba
2. R. Rotunno
3. J. Wurman
4. George H. Bryan
5. M. Montgomery
6. Roger K. Smith
7. Christopher A. Davis
8. Kerry A. Emanuel

In Computational Mechanics

1. R. Rotunno
2. K. Kosiba
3. J. Wurman

Citations in the corpus

• The Fluid Dynamics of Tornadoes (2013, background): “Occasionally, tornadoes have a multiple-vortex structure (Figure 4) with each subvortex associated with a local wind-speed maximum in the Doppler-velocity field (Wurman 2002).”
• The role of small-scale vortices in enhancing surface winds and damage in Hurricane Harvey (2017) (2018, background): “High-temporal-frequency, (Montgomery and Kallenbach 1997) [and analogous to the propagation of similar vortices observed in tornadoes; Wurman (2002)].”