NORA-Nowcasting of Orographic Rainfall by means of analogues

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 661, 2011, Pages 2106-2123

  Panziera, L ^a   Germann, U ^a   Gabella, M ^a   Mandapaka, P V ^a  

^a MeteoSwiss ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Air mass stability; Alpine radar; IMPRINTS; Mesoscale flows

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; ANALOGUE METHOD; DATA SETS; EULERIAN; EUROPEAN ALPS; EVOLUTION OF PRECIPITATION; FORECAST UNCERTAINTY; IMPRINTS; LEADTIME; LONG LASTING; MESOSCALE; MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS; NOWCASTING; NUMERICAL MODELS; OROGRAPHIC FORCING; OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; RADAR DATA; RAINFALL PATTERNS;

FORECASTING; RADAR;

RAIN;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR MASS; ANALOG MODEL; CLIMATE FORCING; HEURISTICS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NOWCASTING; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

LAKE MAGGIORE;

EID: 83255186855     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.878     Document Type: Article

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