Introduction to the HyMeX Special Issue on ‘Advances in understanding and forecasting of heavy precipitation in the Mediterranean through the HyMeX SOP1 field campaign’

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 142, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-6

  Ducrocq, Véronique ^a   Davolio, Silvio ^b   Ferretti, Rossella ^c,d   Flamant, Cyrille ^e   Santaner, Victor Homar ^f   Kalthoff, Norbert ^g   Richard, Evelyne ^h   Wernli, Heini ⁱ  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

^c DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^e SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^f UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^g KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^h LABORATOIRE D AÉROLOGIE   (France)

ⁱ ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84983447857     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2856     Document Type: Editorial

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