Heavy precipitation on the Alpine southside : An upper-level precursor

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1435-1438

  Massacand, Alexia C ^a   Wernli, Heini ^a   Davies, Huw C ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW PATTERNS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

HEAVY PRECIPITATION; STRATOSPHERE; UPPER LEVEL PRECURSORS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

HEAVY RAINFALL; PRECIPITATION; STORM;

EUROPE, ALPS;

EID: 0032076792     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL50869     Document Type: Article

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