Dataset for Li et al. 2024, PNAS Upstream surface roughness and terrain are strong drivers of contrast in tornado potential between North and South America

10.4231/9E1V-EQ84

Brian Medeiros , Daniel Chavas , Funing Li , Kevin Reed , Kristen Rasmussen

05/24/2024

This database provides tornadic environmental variables and associated data from observations, ERA5 reanalysis, and CESM experiments over North and South America for researching the contrast in tornado activity between North and South America.

severe thunderstorms surface roughness tornadoes