Flash flood forecasting within the PREVIEW project: Value of high-resolution hydrometeorological coupled forecast

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 103, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 115-125

  Vincendon, Beatrice ^a   Ducrocq, V ^a   Dierer, S ^b   Kotroni, V ^c   Le Lay, M ^d   Milelli, M ^e   Quesney, A ^f   Saulnier, G M ^g   Rabuffetti, D ^e   Bouilloud, L ^a   Chancibault, K ^h   Anquetin, S ^d   Lagouvardos, K ^c   Steiner, P ^b  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^c IERSD   (Greece)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^e ARPA PIEMONTE   (Italy)

^f Noveltis   (France)

^g Campus Technolac Savoie Mont Blanc University   (France)

^h UNIVERSITÉ GUSTAVE EIFFEL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; FLASH FLOOD; FLOOD FORECASTING; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CEVENNES; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; ITALY; PIEDMONT [ITALY]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 63149181502     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-008-0315-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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