Diagnostic downscaling of large-scale wind fields to compute local-scale trajectories

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 931-942

  Stohl, Andreas ^a,d   Baumann, Kathrin ^b   Wotawa, Gerhard ^a   Langer, Matthias ^b   Neininger, Bruno ^c   Piringer, Martin ^b   Formater, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

^c MetAir AG   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; TRAJECTORY; WINDFIELD;

EID: 0031395638     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1997)036<0931:DDOLSW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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