Were global numerical weather prediction systems capable of forecasting the extreme Colorado rainfall of 9-16 September 2013?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 6405-6410

  Lavers, David A ^a   Villarini, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorado; extreme rainfall; numerical weather prediction

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATED RAINFALL; COLORADO; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; EXTREME RAINFALL; LEADTIME; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; RAINFALL PATTERNS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

RAIN;

EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD DAMAGE; FLOODING; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BOULDER; COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84890404395     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058282     Document Type: Article

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