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Influence of US weather conditions on tornado trends since 1980 explored by new model

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Long term temporal trends in synoptic-scale weather conditions favoring significant tornado occurrence over the central United States

image: A long-track EF2 tornado passes through western South Dakota horse rangeland south of Faith on May 24, 2010. The Virginia Tech Hokie Storm Chase team followed the storm for approximately 20 miles. view more 

Credit: William Chong, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Influence of US weather conditions on tornado trends since 1980 explored by new model

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0281312

Article Title: Long term temporal trends in synoptic-scale weather conditions favoring significant tornado occurrence over the central United States

Author Countries: USA

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.


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