Evaluation of MAP D-PHASE heavy precipitation alerts in Switzerland during summer 2007

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 100, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 178-189

  Ament, Felix ^a,b   Weusthoff, Tanja ^b   Arpagaus, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Alert system; Alpine region; Convection resolving models; Precipitation forecasts; Probabilistic forecasts

Indexed keywords

ALERT SYSTEMS; ALPINE REGION; CONVECTION RESOLVING MODELS; PRECIPITATION FORECASTS; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BOOTSTRAPPING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; WARNING SYSTEM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 79954630880     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2010.06.007     Document Type: Article

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