The simulation of medicanes in a high-resolution regional climate model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 9-10, 2012, Pages 2273-2290

  Cavicchia, Leone ^a,b,c   von Storch, Hans ^b,d  

^a CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamical downscaling; Medicanes climatology; Mediterranean hurricanes; Mesoscale tropical like cyclones

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLONE; DATA SET; DOWNSCALING; HURRICANE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TREND ANALYSIS;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84868107496     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1220-0     Document Type: Article

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