Dealing with uncertainty: An analysis of the severe weather events over Italy in 2006

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1775-1787

  Molini, L ^a   Parodi, A ^a   Siccardi, F ^a,b  

^a CIMA Research Foundation   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; DECISION MAKING; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SEVERE WEATHER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 71749112744     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: None    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-9-1775-2009     Document Type: Article

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