Sensitivity of meteorological high-resolution numerical simulations of the biggest floods occurred over the Arno river basin, Italy, in the 20th century

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 288, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 37-56

  Meneguzzo, Francesco ^a   Pasqui, Massimiliano ^a   Menduni, Giovanni ^b   Messeri, Gianni ^c   Gozzini, Bernardo ^a   Grifoni, Daniele ^a   Rossi, Matteo ^c   Maracchi, Giampiero ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOMETEOROLOGY   (Italy)

^b Arno River Basin Authority   (Italy)

^c Laboratory for Meteorology and Environmental Modelling (LaMMA)   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atmospheric reanalyses; Floods; Forecasts verification; Numerical weather prediction; Quantitative precipitation forecasts; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SURFACE WATERS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARNO RIVER BASIN, ITALY; REGIONAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELING SYSTEM (RAMS);

FLOODS;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; FLOOD FORECASTING; FORECASTING METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIVER BASIN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARNO RIVER; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TUSCANY;

EID: 6444237788     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2003.11.032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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