Disentangling the forcing mechanisms of a heavy precipitation event along the alpine South side using potential vorticity inversion

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2336-2353

  Schlemmer, Linda ^a   Martius, Olivia ^a   Sprenger, Michael ^a   Schwierz, Cornelia ^b   Twitchett, Arwen ^c  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Forcing; Mesoscale processes; Orographic effects; Potential vorticity; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

AIR PARCELS; ALPINE REGIONS; CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELS; LOW-LEVEL WINDS; MESOSCALE; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS; PIECE-WISE; POSITIVE POTENTIAL; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; POTENTIAL VORTICITY INVERSIONS; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; SENSITIVE AREA; STATIC STABILITY; TWO PARAMETER; UPWARD MOTION; VERTICAL STABILITY; WESTERN EUROPE; WIND VELOCITIES;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); VORTICITY;

STABILITY;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; DATA INVERSION; FROUDE NUMBER; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE TRANSFER; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; POTENTIAL ENERGY; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

ALPS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 77955562104     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR3202.1     Document Type: Article

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