Introduction to the HyMeX Special Issue on ‘Advances in understanding and forecasting of heavy precipitation in the Mediterranean through the HyMeX SOP1 field campaign’

Véronique Ducrocq (1) , Silvio Davolio (2) , Rossella Ferretti (3, 2) , Cyrille Flamant (4) , Victor Homar Santaner (5) , Norbert Kalthoff (6) , Evelyne Richard (7) , Heini Wernli (8)

1 CNRM - Centre national de recherches météorologiques
2 ISAC - Istituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima
3 DMI - Danish Meteorological Institute
4 TROPO - LATMOS
5 UIB - Universitat de les Illes Balears
6 IMK - Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research
7 LAERO - Laboratoire d'aérologie
8 IAC - Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science [Zürich]

This Special Issue presents a wide range of studies carried out over the last three years exploiting the exceptional dataset of observations and model output collected during SOP1. The special issue consists of a series of 31 articles. Some major results of these articles are summarized in the following sections. Section 2 presents advances in observations and their use in characterizing HPE, section 3 highlights the advances in process understanding, and section 4 details results about predictability of HPE from numerical weather prediction (NWP) and regional climate models.

Domains: Hydrology; Climatology

Véronique Ducrocq, Silvio Davolio, Rossella Ferretti, Cyrille Flamant, Victor Homar Santaner, et al.. Introduction to the HyMeX Special Issue on ‘Advances in understanding and forecasting of heavy precipitation in the Mediterranean through the HyMeX SOP1 field campaign’. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2016, 142 (S1), pp.1-6. ⟨10.1002/qj.2856⟩. ⟨insu-01356062⟩