Overview of ESSL's severe convective storms research using the European Severe Weather Database ESWD

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 93, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 575-586

  Dotzek, Nikolai ^a,b   Groenemeijer, Pieter ^a,c   Feuerstein, Bernold ^a,d   Holzer, Alois M ^a,e  

^a European Severe Storms Laboratory ESSL   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^e ORF Austrian Broadcasting Corporation   (Austria)

Author keywords

Climatology; Database; E scale; ESSL; ESWD; Intensity distribution; Quality control; Reporting; Verification

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; E-SCALE; ESSL; ESWD; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; REPORTING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; RESEARCH; THUNDERSTORMS; TORNADOES; WIND POWER;

QUALITY CONTROL;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DATA QUALITY; DATABASE; QUALITY CONTROL; SEVERE WEATHER; THUNDERSTORM;

EID: 67349145733     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2008.10.020     Document Type: Article

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