Early Detection of Baby-Rain-Cell Aloft in a Severe Storm and Risk Projection for Urban Flash Flood

In July 2008, five people were killed by a tragic flash flood caused by a local torrential heavy rainfall in a short time in Toga River. From this tragic accident, we realized that a system which can detect hazardous rain-cells in the earlier stage is strongly needed and would provide an additional...

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Main Authors: Eiichi Nakakita, Hiroto Sato, Ryuta Nishiwaki, Hiroyuki Yamabe, Kosei Yamaguchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2017-01-01
Series:Advances in Meteorology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5962356