A PROPOSED REVISION TO THE DEFINITION OF “DERECHO”
A PROPOSED REVISION TO THE DEFINITION OF “DERECHO”
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Boston: American Meteorological Society
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The word “derecho” was first used by Gustavus Hinrichs in 1888 to distinguish the widespread damaging windstorms that occurred on occasion over the mid–Mississippi Valley region of the United States from damaging winds associated with tornadoes. The term soon fell into disuse, however, and did not reappear in the literature until Robert Johns and W...
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A PROPOSED REVISION TO THE DEFINITION OF “DERECHO”
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1846403025
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1846403025
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0003-0007
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1520-0477
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10.1175/bams-d-14-00254.1
