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Vestnik Moskov. Univ. Ser. 1. Mat. Mekh., 2015 Number 6, Pages 54–58 (Mi vmumm285)

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Electric mechanisms of vorticity amplification in the funnel of a tornado

S. A. Maslov

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics

Abstract: The influence of a tripole thundercloud charge and an atmospheric electric field perturbation under the cloud on the flow vorticity in the forming tornado funnel is considered. The strong vorticity localization in the funnel at small spatial scales is theoretically substantiated.

Key words: tornado, thundercloud, tripole charge structure, atmospheric electric field.

UDC: 532.5+537.8+551.5

Received: 27.10.2014


 English version:
Moscow University Mathematics Bulletin, Moscow University Måchanics Bulletin, 2015, 70:6, 149–152

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