Hail in northeast italy: Climatology and bivariate analysis with the sounding-derived indices

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 449-467

  Manzato, Agostino ^a  

^a OSMER Osservatorio Meteorologico Regionale dell'ARPA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Climatology; Hail; Stability; Statistical forecasting

Indexed keywords

BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIOSOUNDING; STATISTICAL FORECASTING; TIME INTERVAL; TIME OF DAY;

CLIMATOLOGY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HAIL; INDEX METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA; ITALY; UDINE;

EID: 84861705160     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-10-05012.1     Document Type: Article

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