Determination of airflow across the Alpine ridge by a combination of airborne Doppler lidar, routine radiosounding and numerical simulation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 129, Issue 588 PART B (MAP), 2003, Pages 715-727

  Reitebuch, Oliver ^a   Volkert, Hans ^a   Werner, Christian ^a   Dabas, Alain ^b   Delville, Patricia ^c   Drobinski, Philippe ^d   Flamant, Pierre H ^e   Richard, Evelyne ^e  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^c STATION DE RADIOASTRONOMIE DE NANÇAY   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

High resolution simulation; Jet stream; Mesoscale Alpine Programme; Valley flow

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER RADAR; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICS; WIND EFFECTS;

WIND INFRARED DOPPLER LIDARS (WIND);

OPTICAL RADAR;

AIRFLOW; DOPPLER LIDAR; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; VALLEY; WIND VELOCITY;

ALPS; EUROPE;

EID: 0037252673     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.02.42     Document Type: Article

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