Abstract: adar-observed vertical structure of precipitation as defined by contoured frequency by altitude diagrams (CFADs) is related to dynamic and thermodynamic environmental parameters. CFADs from 559 storms occurring over the ...

Abstract: perational radar data reveal that precipitation systems occurring on the southern side of the Alps near Locarno, Switzerland, follow seasonal patterns of vertical reflectivity structure. Storms occurring in summer are more ...

Abstract: 9-yr (2000?08) analysis of precipitation characteristics for the central and western European Alps has been generated from ground-based operational weather radar data provided by the Swiss radar network. The radar-based ...

Abstract: rojections of twenty-first-century precipitation for seven Swiss river basins are generated by linking high-resolution (2 km ? 2 km) radar-estimated precipitation observations to a global climate model (GCM) via synoptic ...