The Soverato flood in Southern Italy: Performance of global and limited-area ensemble forecasts

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 261-274

  Montani, A ^a   Marsigli, C ^b   Nerozzi, F ^a   Paccagnella, T ^a   Tibaldi, S ^a   Buizza, R ^c  

^a ARPA SMR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; FLOODING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREDICTION; RAINFALL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CALABRIA; ITALY; SOVERATO;

EID: 0038205882     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-10-261-2003     Document Type: Article

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