Forecasting of precipitation occurrence in long-range trajectory climatology

Summary A procedure to include a way for forecasting the precipitation occurrence in the air mass trajectory computation for climatological studies in order to compute the wet deposition of airborne pollutants is presented. It is based on a technique proposed by Moscoet al., Riv. Meteorol. Aeronaut.,33, 229 (1973). Its performance is tested comparing the forescen occurrence of either precipitation or no precipitationversus the actual one for two stations, Parma and Vipiteno, for a period of four years. In more than 80% of the cases the forecasting was correct.