Explicit forecasts of hail occurrence and expected hail size using the GEM-HAILCAST system with a rainfall filter

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 935-945

  Brimelow, Julian C ^a   Reuter, Gerhard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBERTA; CANADIAN PRAIRIE; CLOUD MODELS; DYNAMIC OUTPUT; FALSE ALARM RATIO; GEM MODELS; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL MULTISCALE MODELS; GROWTH MODELS; INPUT DATAS; MASKING TECHNIQUE; NUMERICAL MODELS; PROGNOSTIC MODEL; STUDY AREAS; TIME STEP; TIME-DEPENDENT;

FORECASTING; GEMS; RAIN;

ELECTRON MULTIPLIERS;

CLOUD COVER; GROWTH MODELING; HAIL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; THERMODYNAMICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

EID: 74549201539     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009WAF2222138.1     Document Type: Article

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