A numerical study to investigate the roles of former Hurricane Leslie, orography and evaporative cooling in the 2018 Aude heavy-precipitation event

<p>In south-eastern France, the Mediterranean coast is regularly affected by heavy-precipitation events. On 14–15 October 2018, in the Aude department, a back-building quasi-stationary mesoscale convective system produced up to about 300 mm of rain in 11 h. At synoptic scale, the former Hurric...

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Main Authors: M. Mandement, O. Caumont
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2021-08-01
Series:Weather and Climate Dynamics
Online Access:https://wcd.copernicus.org/articles/2/795/2021/wcd-2-795-2021.pdf