The role of the sea on the flash floods events over Liguria (northwestern Italy)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 3534-3542

  Cassola, F ^a,b,c   Ferrari, F ^a,b,c   Mazzino, A ^a,b,c   Miglietta, M M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI GENOVA   (Italy)

^c CINFAI Consortium   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Flash floods; Numerical weather prediction; Quantitative precipitation forecast; Sea Surface Temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FLOODS; FORECASTING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; FLASH FLOOD; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; MULTI-SATELLITE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PRECIPITATION FORECASTING; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECAST; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 84979490326     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL068265     Document Type: Article

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