Environmental conditions responsible for the type of precipitation in summer convective storms over Bulgaria

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 93, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 30-38

  Dimitrova, Tsvetelina ^a   Mitzeva, Rumjana ^b   Savtchenko, Aglika ^b  

^a Agency Hail Suppression   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Discriminant analysis; Hail; Instability indices; Numerical cloud model

Indexed keywords

BULGARIA; CLASSIFICATION FUNCTIONS; CLOUD MODELS; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; CONVECTIVE STORMS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; FREE CONVECTIONS; HAIL; INSTABILITY INDEX; INSTABILITY INDICES; MEAN VALUES; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; NON-LINEAR IMPACT; NUMERICAL CLOUD MODEL; STEPWISE DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

CLOUDS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STABILITY; THUNDERSTORMS;

RAIN;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FORMATION MECHANISM; HAIL; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; THRESHOLD; THUNDERSTORM;

BULGARIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

THRACIA;

EID: 67349231434     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2008.10.010     Document Type: Article

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