Multiscale analysis of three consecutive years of anomalous flooding in Pakistan

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 141, Issue 689, 2015, Pages 1259-1276

  Rasmussen, K L ^a   Hill, A J ^b   Toma, V E ^c   Zuluaga, M D ^a   Webster, P J ^c   Houze, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flooding; Mesoscale convective systems; Pakistan floods; Predictability; South Asian monsoon; TRMM

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FORECASTING; OIL WELL FLOODING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; RAIN GAGES; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ASIAN MONSOON; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; PAKISTAN; PREDICTABILITY; TRMM;

FLOODS;

ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FLOODING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STORM; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TRMM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PAKISTAN;

EID: 85028223386     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2433     Document Type: Article

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