Atmospheric forcing of debris flows in the southern swiss alps

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1554-1560

  Toreti, Andrea ^a   Schneuwly Bollschweiler, Michelle ^b   Stoffel, Markus ^c   Luterbacher, Jürg ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CONVECTIVE EQUILIBRIUMS; CONVECTIVE TIME-SCALE; HIGH POTENTIAL; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; POTENTIAL INSTABILITY; THERMODYNAMICAL;

TIME SERIES;

DEBRIS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; DEBRIS FLOW; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; RAINFALL; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALPS;

EID: 84880667871     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-13-077.1     Document Type: Article

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