Precipitation predictability associated with tropical moisture exports and circulation patterns for a major flood in France in 1995

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 6381-6392

  Lu, Mengqian ^a,b   Lall, Upmanu ^a,b   Schwartz, Aurélien ^c   Kwon, Hyunhan ^d  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Center for International Forestry Research   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION PATTERNS; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS;

CLIMATOLOGY; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

FLOODS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; FLOOD FREQUENCY; MOISTURE CONTENT; MOISTURE TRANSFER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

BRETAGNE; FRANCE;

EID: 84884995112     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20512     Document Type: Article

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