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15 Jun 2016
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| 15 Jun 2016
A radar-based regional extreme rainfall analysis to derive the thresholds for a novel automatic alert system in Switzerland
Luca Panziera
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
MeteoSwiss, Locarno Monti, Switzerland
Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Marco Gabella
MeteoSwiss, Locarno Monti, Switzerland
Stefano Zanini
MeteoSwiss, Locarno Monti, Switzerland
Alessandro Hering
MeteoSwiss, Locarno Monti, Switzerland
Urs Germann
MeteoSwiss, Locarno Monti, Switzerland
Alexis Berne
Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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This paper presents a novel system to issue heavy rainfall alerts for predefined geographical regions by evaluating the sum of precipitation fallen in the immediate past and expected in the near future. In order to objectively define the thresholds for the alerts, an extreme rainfall analysis for the 159 regions used for official warnings in Switzerland was developed. It is shown that the system has additional lead time with respect to thunderstorm tracking tools targeted for convective storms.
This paper presents a novel system to issue heavy rainfall alerts for predefined geographical...
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