Modelling of air flow and cloud fields over the northern Pennines

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 31, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 2421-2439

  Wobrock, W ^a   Flossmann, A I ^a   Colvile, R N ^b   Inglis, D W F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Backtrajectories; Flow over complex terrain; Orographic clouds; Tracer studies

Indexed keywords

SULFATE;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; CLOUD; HUMIDITY; METEOROLOGY; PLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; UNITED KINGDOM; WIND;

AIR FLOW; CLOUDS; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL; THERMODYNAMICS; TOPOGRAPHY;

AIR FLOW; BACK TRAJECTORY; CLOUD FIELD; GROUNDBASED CLOUD EXPERIMENT; OROGRAPHIC COULD;

UK, ENGLAND, PENNINES, GREAT DUN FELL;

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLOUDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SULFUR DIOXIDE; WIND;

GROUND BASED CLOUD EXPERIMENTS; OROGRAPHIC CLOUDS;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0030616213     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(96)00287-7     Document Type: Article

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