Linking ENSO and heavy rainfall events over coastal British Columbia through a weather pattern classification

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1455-1473

  Brigode, P ^a,b,e   Micovic Z ^c   Bernardara, P ^a   Paquet, E ^d   Garavaglia, F ^d   Gailhard, J ^d   Ribstein, P ^b  

^a LNHE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c BC HYDRO   (Canada)

^d DTG   (France)

^e Union Outstanding Student Poster ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION PATTERNS; BOTTOM UP APPROACH; GEO-POTENTIAL HEIGHTS; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; RECONSTRUCTION OF PAST CLIMATE; WEATHER PATTERNS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; LASERS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

RAIN;

ANTICYCLONE; BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HOMOGENEITY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

EID: 84879060043     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-1455-2013     Document Type: Article

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