Articles | Volume 24, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-269-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-269-2020
Research article
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20 Jan 2020
Research article |  | 20 Jan 2020

Impact of high-resolution sea surface temperature representation on the forecast of small Mediterranean catchments' hydrological responses to heavy precipitation

Alfonso Senatore, Luca Furnari, and Giuseppe Mendicino

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NCEP ADP Global Upper Air Observational Weather Data, October 1999–continuing NCEP https://doi.org/10.5065/39C5-Z211

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This paper addresses the question of how different resolutions of sea surface temperature (SST) representation affect regional operational hydro-meteorological forecasting chains over coastal Mediterranean catchments by analysing two different severe events that affected southern Italy in 2015. Even if the benefits of high-resolution SST representation are hidden by other sources of uncertainty, the experiments highlight that the impact is non-negligible in most cases.