Deficiencies in quantitative precipitation forecasts: Sensitivity studies using the COSMO model

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 631-645

  Dierer, Silke ^a,b   Arpagaus, Marco ^a   Seifert, Axel ^c   Avgoustoglou, Euripides ^d   Dumitrache, Rodica ^e   Grazzini, Federico ^f   Mercogliano, Paula ^g   Mllelli, Massimo ^h   Starosta, Katarzyna ⁱ  

^a FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^b Meteotest   (Switzerland)

^c DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^d Hellenic National Meteorological Service   (Greece)

^e National Meteorological Administration   (Romania)

^f Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione Ambientale Emilia Romagna   (Italy)

^g ITALIAN AEROSPACE RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^h ARPA PIEMONTE   (Italy)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGY AND WATER MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC WATER; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; COSMO MODEL; FORECAST ERRORS; LEAPFROG SCHEME; MAIN GROUP; MOISTURE EXCHANGE; NUMERICAL SCHEME; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECAST; RUNGE-KUTTA; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; STRATIFORM PRECIPITATION; TEST CASE; TIME-INTEGRATION SCHEME;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; EXPERIMENTS; MOISTURE;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 77949580942     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2009/0420     Document Type: Article

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