Remote sensing observation of effects of mountain blocking on travelling gravity-shear waves and associated clouds

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 255-284

  Reinking, Roger F ^a   Frisch, A Shelby ^b   Orr, Brad W ^c   Korn, David L ^a   Bissonnette, Luc R ^d   Roy, Gilles ^d  

^a SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA VALCARTIER   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blocked flow; Droplet growth (wave driven); Kelvin Helmholtz instability; Low level jet; Vortex sheets; Vortex tubes

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; CLOUDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SHEAR WAVES;

MOUNTAINS;

GRAVITY WAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; GRAVITY WAVE; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY; MOUNTAIN; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; REMOTE SENSING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0242459005     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025865421606     Document Type: Article

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