Sources of water vapour contributing to the Elbe flood in August 2002 - A tagging study in a mesoscale model

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 638, 2009, Pages 205-223

  Sodemann, H ^a,d   Wernli, H ^b   Schwierz, C ^a,c  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Atmospheric water transport; Heavy precipitation; Numerical modelling; Water vapour tracers

Indexed keywords

AFFECTED AREA; ATMOSPHERIC WATER TRANSPORT; AUSTRIA; BACKWARD TRAJECTORY; BOUNDARY TREATMENT; CASE-STUDIES; CENTRAL EUROPE; CLOUD WATER; CONSERVATIVE TRACERS; CZECH REPUBLIC; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; GERMANY; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; LAND AREAS; LIMITED AREA MODELS; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE MODEL; MODEL DOMAINS; NUMERICAL MODELLING; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; PARAMETRIZATIONS; SOURCE REGION; SUBTROPICAL AREA; TECHNICAL PROBLEM; TRACKING METHOD; WATER VAPOUR; WATER VAPOUR TRACERS;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; HEAVY WATER; MOISTURE; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SIMULATORS; WATER SUPPLY;

WATER VAPOR;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CLOUD WATER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOODING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; TRACER; TRACKING; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; ELBE RIVER; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 67649419177     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.374     Document Type: Article

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