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Warm season precipitation climatology: first European results
1National Research Council, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Bologna, Italy
2National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Abstract. To date very low scores are associated to quantitative precipitation forecasts (QPF) of warm season precipitation, a fact mostly due to the little knowledge of the mechanisms driving these phenomena. The study aims to produce a five-year climatology (1999–2003) of warm season precipitation systems (MJJA) over Europe using Meteosat IR brightness temperatures as a contribution to a global study launched by the World Weather Research Programme (WWRP). Cold cloud persistence, span and duration of weather systems were determined to derive the zonal propagation speed and daily cycles.
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Citation: Levizzani, V., Ginnetti, R., Laing, A. G., and Carbone, R. E.: Warm season precipitation climatology: first European results, Adv. Geosci., 7, 15-18, doi:10.5194/adgeo-7-15-2006, 2006. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager XML
