Missing North Atlantic cyclonic precipitation in ECMWF numerical weather prediction and ERA-40 data detected through the satellite climatology HOAPS II

Intense precipitation associated with wintertime North Atlantic cyclones occurs not only in connection with frontal zones but also, and often mainly, embedded in strong cold air outbreaks to the west of mature cold fronts. Coherent structures of cloud clusters organized in mesoscale postfrontal low-...

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Published in:Meteorologische Zeitschrift
Main Authors: Christian-Philipp Klepp, Stephan Bakan, Hartmut Grassl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Borntraeger 2005-12-01
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/0941-2948/2005/0088