Small-scale rainfall mechanisms for an idealized convective southerly flow over the Alps

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 129, Issue 591 PART B, 2003, Pages 1819-1840

  Gheusi, François ^a   Stein, Joel ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Mesoscale Alpine Programme; Orographic precipitation

Indexed keywords

HEAT CONVECTION; RAIN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WIND EFFECTS;

TOPOGRAPHY;

METEOROLOGY;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL METHOD; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; RAINFALL; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

EUROPE;

EID: 0038684935     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.02.85     Document Type: Article

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