Re-evaluation of moisture sources for the August 2002 extreme rainfall episode in central Europe Evaporation from falling precipitation included in a mesoscale modeling system》.pdf

Journal of Hydrology 529 (2015) 696–710 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Hydrology journal homepage: www.elsevi /locate/jhydrol Re-evaluation of moisture sources for the August 2002 extreme rainfall episode in central Europe: Evaporation from falling precipitation included in a mesoscale modeling system G. Gangoiti a,⇑, E. Sáez de Cámara a, I. Gómez-Domenech b, L. Alonso a, M. Navazo a, J. Iza a, J.A. García a, M.M. Millán c a University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Bilbao, Alameda de Urquijo s/n, E-48013 Bilbao, Spain b Departament de Física de la Terra i Termodinàmica, Facultat de Física, Universitat de València, Doctor Moliner, 50, 46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain c Fundación CEAM, Charles Darwin 14, Parque Tecnológico, Paterna, E-46980 Valencia, Spain a r t i c l e i n f o s u m m a r y Article history: Discriminating moisture sources with precision is an important requirement to better understand the Received 3 June 2014 processes involved in extreme rainfall episodes. In a previous contribution by Gangoiti et al. (2011b), Received in revised form 28 July 2015 an innovative technique was presented to assess surface moisture sources contributing to a target pre- Accepted 26 August 2015 cipitation within a Lagrangian framework. The technique was based in transporting parcels of vapor, rep- Available online 3 September 2015 resenting the target precipitation, across a set of nested grids covering a large area at different This man