Short range forecast verification of convective rain for a night-time event over the area of Cyprus

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-24

  Tartaglione, Nazario ^a   Gabella, Marco ^b   Michaelides, Silas Chr ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c Meteorological Service of Cyprus   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Convection; NWP model; Precipitation; Radar

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; TROPICS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

CONVECTIVE RAIN; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION (NWP); TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION (TRMM);

RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; HYDROSTATICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; RAINFALL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ASIA; CYPRUS; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 39749107319     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2007.09.003     Document Type: Article

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