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RISThe Formation and Destruction of Inversion Layers within a Deep Valley
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The technique of large-eddy simulations has been used to investigate thermally driven local circulations in deep valleys for a complete diurnal cycle. A soil model simulates the thermal forcing at the ground, which depends ...
Geostatistical Analysis of Orographic Rainbands
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Based on weather radar detection, orographic rainbands parallel to wind direction may persist for several hours over a Mediterranean mountainous region prone to stable wind and humidity conditions. A statistical analysis ...
The Contribution of Orographically Driven Banded Precipitation to the Rainfall Climatology of a Mediterranean Region
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: tudies carried out worldwide show that topography influences rainfall climatology. As in most western Mediterranean regions, the mountainous Cévennes?Vivarais area in France regularly experiences extreme precipitation that ...
A Scale-Dependent Quality Index of Areal Rainfall Prediction
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Many performance indexes have been proposed to assess the quality of predicted rainfall fields. Each new index is generally tested on schematic cases or on case studies. A quality index of predicted rainfall fields is ...
A Situation-Based Analysis of Flash Flood Fatalities in the United States
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: his paper investigates the circumstances of 1,075 fatalities from flash flooding recorded from 1996 to 2014 across the United States. This study provides insights into the situations of the fatality events as determined ...
Rainfall Regime of a Mountainous Mediterranean Region: Statistical Analysis at Short Time Steps
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: his paper presents an analysis of the rainfall regime of a Mediterranean mountainous region of southeastern France. The rainfall regime is studied on temporal scales from hourly to yearly using daily and hourly rain gauge ...
Multiscale Evaluation of Extreme Rainfall Event Predictions Using Severity Diagrams
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: bservations and simulations of rainfall events are usually compared by analyzing (i) the total rainfall depth produced by the event and (ii) the location of the rainfall maximum. A different approach is proposed here that ...
Coupling the ISBA Land Surface Model and the TOPMODEL Hydrological Model for Mediterranean Flash-Flood Forecasting: Description, Calibration, and Validation
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Innovative coupling between the soil?vegetation?atmosphere transfer (SVAT) model Interactions between Soil, Biosphere, and Atmosphere (ISBA) and the hydrological model TOPMODEL has been specifically designed for flash-flood ...
The Catastrophic Flash-Flood Event of 8–9 September 2002 in the Gard Region, France: A First Case Study for the Cévennes–Vivarais Mediterranean Hydrometeorological Observatory
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The Cévennes?Vivarais Mediterranean Hydrometeorological Observatory (OHM-CV) is a research initiative aimed at improving the understanding and modeling of the Mediterranean intense rain events that frequently result in ...