Improving hail identification in the Ebro Valley region using radar observations: Probability equations and warning thresholds

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 93, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 474-482

  Mallafré, Manuel Ceperuelo ^a   Ribas, Tomeu Rigo ^b   del Carmen Llasat Botija, Maria ^a   Sánchez, José Luis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Meteorological Service of Catalonia   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Convective cell; Hail; Probability of hail; Radar

Indexed keywords

CELL ANALYSIS; CONVECTIVE CELL; GROUND OBSERVATIONS; HAIL; IMPROVED MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY EQUATIONS; RADAR DATA; RADAR OBSERVATIONS;

LANDFORMS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PROBABILITY; THUNDERSTORMS;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; HAIL; KINETIC ENERGY; MODELING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; RADAR IMAGERY; SATELLITE DATA; THUNDERSTORM;

EBRO VALLEY; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 67349260140     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2008.09.039     Document Type: Article

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