An Alpine rainstorm: Sensitivity to the mesoscale upper-level structure

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 4-28

  Fehlmann, R ^a   Quadri, C ^a   Davies, H C ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

ALPINE RAINSTORM; INTRUDED STRATOSPHERIC AIR; METEOSAT WATER VAPOR IMAGERY; POTENTIAL VORTICITY DISTRIBUTION; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECASTING; STORM SYNOPTIC EVOLUTION;

STORMS;

MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; RAINFALL; RAINSTORM;

ALPS; EUROPE;

EID: 0034099866     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2000)015<0004:AARSTT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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