Effect of soil hydraulic parameters on the local convective precipitation

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 143-153

  Ács, Ferenc ^a   Horváth, Ákos ^b   Breuer, Hajnalka ^a   Rubel, Franz ^c  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b HUNGARIAN METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK KRIGING; CONVECTIVE EVENTS; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA SETS; FIELD CAPACITY; HIGH RESOLUTION; HUNGARIANS; LOWER CORRELATION; MESOSCALE MODEL; MODELING SYSTEMS; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PENN STATE; PRECIPITATION GAUGES; RANK ORDER; SOIL DATA; SOIL DATASETS; SOIL EFFECTS; SOIL HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS; SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL SCALE; SUBGRID SCALE; WILTING POINT;

CLIMATE MODELS; HYDRAULICS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL MOISTURE;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DATA SET; FIELD CAPACITY; HYDRAULICS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE CONTENT; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINGAUGE; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

HUNGARY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77952602465     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2010/0435     Document Type: Article

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