Forecasting the heavy rainfall during Himalayan flooding-June 2013

Weather and Climate Extremes

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages 22-34

  Dube, Anumeha ^a   Ashrit, Raghavendra ^a   Ashish, Amit ^a   Sharma, Kuldeep ^a   Iyengar, G R ^a   Rajagopal, E N ^a   Basu, Swati ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTING   (India)

Author keywords

Contiguous rainfall area; Event verification; Global forecast system; Southwest monsoon; Unified model; Uttarakhand

Indexed keywords

FLOODING; MONSOON; RAINFALL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

INDIA; UTTARAKHAND;

EID: 84904763927     PISSN: 22120947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2014.03.004     Document Type: Article

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