A Great Salt Lake Waterspout
Abstract
A waterspout funnel and spray ring were observed under a cumulus line over the Great Salt Lake for about 5 min shortly after sunrise on 26 June 1985. Videotaped features strongly suggested that the funnel rotation was anticyclonic, These observations have been used as the basis for a study of the initiation and evolution of waterspouts through a series of numerical experiments at two scales, that of a cloud and a waterspout.
- Publication:
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Monthly Weather Review
- Pub Date:
- December 1991
- DOI:
- 10.1175/1520-0493-119-12-2740.1
- Bibcode:
- 1991MWRv..119.2741S