Water vapor sources of the October 2000 Piedmont flood

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 693-712

  Turato, Barbara ^a   Reale, Oreste ^b,c   Siccardi, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOOD; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; WATER VAPOR;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; PIEDMONT [ITALY]; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 4444347946     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1525-7541(2004)005<0693:WVSOTO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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