Soil moisture impacts on convective indices and precipitation over complex terrain

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 185-197

  Barthlott, Christian ^a,c   Hauck, Christian ^a,b   Schädler, Gerd ^a   Kalthoff, Norbert ^a   Kottmeier, Christoph ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PREDICTION; BOWEN RATIO; COMPLEX TERRAINS; CONVECTIVE INDEX; CONVECTIVE INHIBITION; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; HIGH SENSITIVITY; INITIAL SOIL MOISTURE; INTENSIVE OBSERVATION PERIODS; LIFTING CONDENSATION LEVELS; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; MOISTURE CONDITIONS; NEAR-SURFACE; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; SURFACE FLUX; SYNOPTIC CONTROLS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; EXPERIMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPLEX TERRAIN; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; SUMMER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 80051675808     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2011/0216     Document Type: Article

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