Wind profiler as a tool to check the ability of two NWP models to forecast winds above highly complex topography

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 489-495

  Ruffieux, Dominique ^a   Stübi, René ^a  

^a FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW; FOEHN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND PROFILE;

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EID: 0035677752     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2001/0010-0489     Document Type: Article

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