Behavior of flow over step orography

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1153-1164

  Gallus Jr , William A ^a   Klemp, Joseph B ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW MODELING; MOUNTAIN REGION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHY;

EID: 0343130500     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<1153:BOFOSO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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