Monitoring water vapour with GNSS during a heavy rainfall event in the Spanish Mediterranean area

[EN] The Spanish Mediterranean area is periodically affected by torrential rainfall events during autumn. In September 2012, one of these episodes took place with up to 50 mm of rain in a 1-hour period and with more he results show a mean increase in IWV of around 30 kg/m2 occurring prior to heavy r...

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Autores: Priego De Los Santos, Enrique|||0000-0001-6642-7806, Porres De La Haza, Maria Joaquina|||0000-0002-7913-4436, Jones, J., Seco Meneses, Andrés
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/96862
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/96862
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Integrated water vapour
Heavy rainfall
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)
Floods
INGENIERIA CARTOGRAFICA, GEODESIA Y FOTOGRAMETRIA
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Sumario:[EN] The Spanish Mediterranean area is periodically affected by torrential rainfall events during autumn. In September 2012, one of these episodes took place with up to 50 mm of rain in a 1-hour period and with more he results show a mean increase in IWV of around 30 kg/m2 occurring prior to heavy recipitation. They further revealed an increase of up to a 100% in IWV values in several GNSS stations available in the study area. Fluctuations in IWV fields correlate well with approaching frontal rainfall and a combined rise in IWV and a drop in atmospheric pressure may well be used as a pre-cursor to heavy precipitation.