The August 2002 flood in Austria: Sensitivity of precipitation forecast skill to areal and temporal averaging

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 369-377

  Kann, Alexander ^a   Haiden, Thomas ^a  

^a ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; FLOODS; HYDROLOGY; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33646065035     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2005/0042     Document Type: Article

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