Indonesia tornado database: tornado climatology of Indonesia

Firdaus, Irfans Maulana; Yamazaki, Takeshi; Abdillah, Muhammad Rais; Riawan, Edi

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Indonesia tornado database: tornado climatology of Indonesia

Irfans Maulana Firdaus, Takeshi Yamazaki, Muhammad Rais Abdillah, and Edi Riawan

Irfans Maulana Firdaus

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR

firdaus.irfans.maulana.q6@dc.tohoku.ac.jp

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9681-4655

Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Takeshi Yamazaki

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9649-4118

Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Muhammad Rais Abdillah

Atmospheric Sciences Research Group, Faculty of Earth Sciences and Technology, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia

Edi Riawan

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7497-230X

Atmospheric Sciences Research Group, Faculty of Earth Sciences and Technology, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia

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