Nowcasting thunderstorms in the Mediterranean region using lightning data

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 489-502

  Kohn, Moriah ^a   Galanti, Eli ^a   Price, Colin ^a   Lagouvardos, Kostas ^b   Kotroni, Vassiliki ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASTING SIMULATIONS; FALSE-ALARM RATES; FLASH FLOOD; GROUND BASED; INTEGRATED INFORMATIONS; LIGHTNING ACTIVITY; LIGHTNING DETECTION; LIGHTNING INTENSITY; MEDITERRANEAN AREAS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; NOWCASTING; OPERATIONAL USE; PROBABILITY OF DETECTION; PROJECT WEBSITE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WARNING DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FLOODS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; THUNDERSTORMS;

LIGHTNING;

ALGORITHM; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DETECTION METHOD; FLASH FLOOD; FORECASTING METHOD; LIGHTNING; NOWCASTING; SEVERE WEATHER; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THUNDERSTORM; WARNING SYSTEM;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 79955694861     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2010.08.010     Document Type: Article

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