HyMeX-SOP1: The field campaign dedicated to heavy precipitation and flash flooding in the northwestern mediterranean

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1083-1100

  Ducrocq, Véronique ^a   Braud, Isabelle ^b   Davolio, Silvio ^c   Ferretti, Rossella ^d   Flamant, Cyrille ^e   Jansa, Agustin ^f   Kalthoff, Norbert ^g   Richard, Evelyne ^h   Taupier Letage, Isabelle ⁱ   Ayral, Pierre Alain ^j   Belamari, Sophie ^a   Berne, Alexis ^k   Borga, Marco ^l   Boudevillain, Brice ^m   Bock, Olivier ⁿ   Boichard, Jean Luc ^o   Bouin, Marie Noëlle ^a   Bousquet, Olivier ^a   Bouvier, Christophe ^p   Chiggiato, Jacopo ^q   Cimini, Domenico ^r   Corsmeier, Ulrich ^g   Coppola, Laurent ^s   Cocquerez, Philippe ^t   Defer, Eric ^u   Delanoë, Julien ^e   Di Girolamo, Paolo ^v   Doerenbecher, Alexis ^a   Drobinski, Philippe ^w   Dufournet, Yann ^x   Fourrié, Nadia ^a   Gourley, Jonathan J ^y   Labatut, Laurent ^a   Lambert, Dominique ^h   Le Coz, Jérôme ^b   Marzano, Frank S ^d,z,aa   Molinié, Gilles ^m   Montani, Andrea ^ab   Nord, Guillaume ^m   Nuret, Mathieu ^a   Ramage, Karim ^ac   Rison, William ^ad   Roussot, Odile ^a   Said, Frédérique ^h   Schwarzenboeck, Alfons ^ae   Testor, Pierre ^af   Van Baelen, Joël ^ae   Vincendon, Béatrice ^a   Aran, Montserrat ^ag   Tamayo, Jorge ^f   more..

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b CENTRE DE LYON VILLEURBANNE   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^e SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^f Agencia Estatal de Meteorología ^*  (Spain)

^g KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^h LABORATOIRE D AÉROLOGIE   (France)

ⁱ STATION MARINE D ENDOUME   (France)

^j University of Nice UMR 6012 ESPACE   (France)

^k EPFL   (Switzerland)

^l UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^m UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

ⁿ INSTITUT GÉOGRAPHIQUE NATIONAL   (France)

^o OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^p UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^q INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCES   (Italy)

^r CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^s LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^t CNES   (France)

^u OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^v UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^w ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^x DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^y NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^z POLICLINICO UMBERTO I   (Italy)

^aa SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^ab ARPA SIMC   (Italy)

^ac INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^ad NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^ae UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^af UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^ag LOCEAN IPSL ^*  (Spain)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; GAGES; LAKES; STORMS;

COMPLEX TERRAINS; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; FIELD CAMPAIGN; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; LIFTING MECHANISMS; NORTHWESTERN MEDITERRANEAN; QUASI-STATIONARY; UNSTABLE FLOWS;

RAIN;

EID: 84900463236     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00244.1     Document Type: Article

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