Extreme rainfall and flooding from orographic thunderstorms in the central Appalachians

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Smith, James A ^a   Baeck, Mary Lynn ^a   Ntelekos, Alexandros A ^a   Villarini, Gabriele ^a,b   Steiner, Matthias ^c  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b Towers Watson   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPALACHIANS; COMPLEX TERRAINS; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; DRAINAGE AREA; ENVELOPE CURVE; EXTRATROPICAL; EXTREME RAINFALL; FLOOD PEAK; NUMERICAL MODELS; PENNSYLVANIA; TIME INTERVAL; WARM SEASONS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WRF MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOOD CONTROL; LANDFORMS; THUNDERSTORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

RAIN;

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; COMPLEX TERRAIN; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; EXTREME EVENT; FLOODING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHY; RAINFALL; RAINSTORM; THUNDERSTORM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

APPALACHIANS; PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955406474     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR010190     Document Type: Article

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