Lee waves over the English Lake District

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 122, Issue 534, 1996, Pages 1283-1305

  Vosper, S B ^a   Mobbs, S D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Linear 3 D wave model; Radiosonde observations; Trapped gravity waves

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVE; LEE WAVE; OROGRAPHY; RADIOSONDE; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE DRAG;

UK, ENGLAND, LAKE DISTRICT;

EID: 0030430462     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.53403     Document Type: Article

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