Seasonal and inter-annual variability of the moisture sources for alpine precipitation during 1995-2002

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 947-961

  Sodemann, Harald ^a,b   Zubler, Elias ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Alpine precipitation; Atmospheric water cycle; Backward trajectories; Moisture source regions; Water vapour transport

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC WATER; ATMOSPHERIC WATER CYCLE; BACKWARD TRAJECTORY; SOURCE REGION; WATER VAPOUR;

CLIMATOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LOCATION; MOISTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; LAND SURFACE; MOISTURE CONTENT; MOISTURE FLUX; MOISTURE TRANSFER; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER VAPOR;

ALPS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CENTRAL EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 77953161215     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1932     Document Type: Article

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