The effect of critical levels on 3D orographic flows: Linear regime

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 1943-1960

  Grubišić, Vanda ^a   Smolarkiewicz, Piotr K ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; FLOW PATTERNS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHEAR FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

LINEAR THEORY; OROGRAPHIC FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

OROGRAPHIC FLOW;

EID: 0031200839     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1997)054<1943:TEOCLO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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