Predictability of intense rain storms in the Central Mediterraneanbasin: sensitivity to upper-level forcing (Articolo in rivista)

Type

• Articolo in rivista (Classe)
• Prodotto della ricerca (Classe)

Label

• Predictability of intense rain storms in the Central Mediterraneanbasin: sensitivity to upper-level forcing (Articolo in rivista) (literal)

Anno

• 2007-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)

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• 10.5194/adgeo-12-5-2007 (literal)

Alternative label

• S. Federico (1)(2); E. Avolio (1)(3); C. Bellecci (1)(3); A. Lavagnini (2); R. L. Walko (4) (2007)
  Predictability of intense rain storms in the Central Mediterraneanbasin: sensitivity to upper-level forcing
  in Advances in geosciences (Print)
  (literal)

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• S. Federico (1)(2); E. Avolio (1)(3); C. Bellecci (1)(3); A. Lavagnini (2); R. L. Walko (4) (literal)

Pagina inizio

• 5 (literal)

Pagina fine

• 18 (literal)

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• 12 (literal)

Rivista

• Advances in geosciences (Rivista)

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• Scopu (literal)

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• (1) CRATI Scrl, c/o Università della Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy (2) CNR-ISAC, via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, Rome , Italy (3) Facoltà di Ingegneria-Università di \"Tor Vergata\", via del Politecnico 1, Rome , Italy (4) Pratt School, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA (literal)

Titolo

• Predictability of intense rain storms in the Central Mediterraneanbasin: sensitivity to upper-level forcing (literal)

Abstract

• This study investigates the sensitivity of a moderate-intense storm that occurred over Calabria, southern Italy, to upper-tropospheric forcing from a Potential Vortic- ity (PV) perspective. A prominent mid-troposheric trough can be identified for this event, which occurred between 22-24 May 2002, and serves as the precursor agent for the moderate-intense precipitation recorded. The working hypothesis is that the uncertainty in the rep- resentation of the upper-level disturbance has a major impact on the precipitation forecast and we test the hypothesis in a two-step approach. First, we examine the degree of un- certainty by comparing five different scenarios in a Limited area model Ensemble Prediction System (LEPS) framework which utilizes the height of the dynamical tropopause as the discriminating variable. Pseudo water vapour images of different scenarios are compared to the corresponding ME- TEOSAT 7 water vapour image at a specific time, antecedent to the rain occurrence over Calabria, in order to evaluate the reliability of the different precipitation scenarios simulated by the LEPS. Second, we examine the impact of upper tropospheric PV variations on precipitation by comparing model simulations with slightly different initial PV fields. Initial velocity and mass fields in each case are balanced with the chosen PV perturbation using a PV inversion technique. The results of this study support the working hypothesis. (literal)

Prodotto di

• Institute of atmospheric sciences and climate (ISAC) (Istituto)
• Meteorologia dinamica (TA.P06.017.003) (Modulo)

Autore CNR

• ELENIO AVOLIO (Persona)
• STEFANO FEDERICO (Persona)
• ALFREDO LAVAGNINI (Persona)

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Prodotto

• Institute of atmospheric sciences and climate (ISAC) (Istituto)
• Meteorologia dinamica (TA.P06.017.003) (Modulo)

Autore CNR di

• ALFREDO LAVAGNINI (Persona)
• ELENIO AVOLIO (Persona)
• STEFANO FEDERICO (Persona)

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• Advances in geosciences (Rivista)