Articles | Volume 24, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-3267-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-3267-2024
Research article
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26 Sep 2024
Research article |  | 26 Sep 2024

Intense rains in Israel associated with the train effect

Baruch Ziv, Uri Dayan, Lidiya Shendrik, and Elyakom Vadislavsky

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Applications of Meteosat Second Generation - Meteorological use of the SEVIRI IR3.9 Channel (https://navigator.eumetsat.int/product/EO:EUM:DAT:MSG:HRSEVIRI) J. Kerkmann http://www.eumetsat.int

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The train effect is related to convective cells that pass over the same place. Trains produce heavy rainfall and sometimes floods and are reported in North America during spring and summer. In Israel, 17 trains associated with Cyprus lows were identified by radar images and were found within the cold sector south of the low center and in the left flank of a maximum wind belt; they cross the Israeli coast, with a mean length of 45 km; last 1–3 h; and yield 35 mm of rainfall up to 60 mm.  
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