Extremeness of meteorological variables as an indicator of extreme precipitation events

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 308-317

  Müller, Miloslav ^a,b   Kašpar, Marek ^a   Řezáčová, Daniela ^a   Sokol, Zbyněk ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Extreme precipitation; Rain flood; Synoptic patterns

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; SCALE (DEPOSITS); STORMS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLICS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; FLOOD EVENTS; LARGE-SCALE PRECIPITATIONS; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; REFERENCE EVENTS; SUMMER FLOODS; SYNOPTIC PATTERNS; THERMODYNAMIC VARIABLES;

RAIN;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 62849085072     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2009.01.010     Document Type: Article

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