Disaggregating convective and stratiform precipitation from station weather data

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 134, Issue , 2013, Pages 100-115

  Rulfová, Zuzana ^a,b   Kyselý, Jan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Central Europe; Convective precipitation; Stratiform precipitation; SYNOP data

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE ALGORITHMS; CENTRAL EUROPE; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; DAILY TEMPERATURES; STRATIFORM PRECIPITATION; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; SYNOP DATA; TOTAL PRECIPITATION;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

METEOROLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; ANNUAL CYCLE; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; STRATIFORM CLOUD; WARMING;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

EID: 84883291936     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2013.07.015     Document Type: Article

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