A probabilistic description of convective mass fluxes and its relationship to extreme-value theory

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 129, Issue 592 PART A, 2003, Pages 2217-2232

  Naveau, P ^a   Moncrieff, M W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized Pareto distribution; Maximum likelihood estimation; Upward mesoscale convective systems

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MASS FLUX;

HEAT CONVECTION;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SQUALL LINE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 0043128740     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.01.124     Document Type: Article

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