Impact of initial condition uncertainties on the predictability of heavy rainfall in the Mediterranean: A case study

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 134, Issue 636, 2008, Pages 1775-1788

  Argence, Sébastien ^a   Lambert, Dominique ^a   Richard, Evelyne ^a   Chaboureau, Jean Pierre ^a   Söhne, Nathalie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Heavy precipitation; Initial condition uncertainties; Mesoscale atmospheric predictability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; FORECASTING; THEOREM PROVING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; CASE STUDIES; CLOUD COVERS; CONVECTIVE CELLS; EUROPEANS; EXTREME EVENTS; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; HEAVY RAINFALLS; INITIAL CONDITION UNCERTAINTIES; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INITIALIZATION METHODS; LATERAL BOUNDARIES; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE ATMOSPHERIC PREDICTABILITY; MESOSCALE MODELS; MESOSCALE STRUCTURES; NORTH AFRICA; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PRECIPITATION FORECASTS; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; SURFACE CYCLONES; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN BASINS;

RAIN;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLOUD COVER; CYCLONE; DATA ASSIMILATION; EXTREME EVENT; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; RAINFALL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AFRICA; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 57349186175     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.314     Document Type: Article

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