Simulating flash flood events: Importance of the subgrid representation of convection

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2884-2912

  Spencer, Phillip L ^a   Stensrud, David J ^a  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; EXTREME EVENT; FLASH FLOOD; RAINFALL;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033039668     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<2884:SFFEIO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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