Impact of North Atlantic evaporation hot spots on southern Alpine heavy precipitation events

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 666, 2012, Pages 1245-1258

  Winschall, A ^a   Pfahl, S ^a   Sodemann, H ^a   Wernli, H ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Evaporation hot spot; Heavy precipitation; Numerical modelling; Ocean evaporation; Potential vorticity; Water vapour tagging

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; HOT SPOT; HOT SPOT AREA; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; NORTH ATLANTIC; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; REGIONAL MODEL; SPATIAL EXTENT; SURFACE WINDS; TIME-PERIODS; TRANSIENT EVENTS; UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH; WATER VAPOUR;

FACTOR ANALYSIS; HEAVY WATER; LANDFORMS; MOISTURE; NUMERICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WATER SUPPLY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EVAPORATION;

AMPLITUDE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MOISTURE TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SURFACE WIND; TROUGH; WATER VAPOR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84864286566     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.987     Document Type: Article

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