Simulation of breaking gravity waves during the South Foehn of January 7-13, 1996

Contributions to Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 287-301

  Schmid, Heidi ^a   Dörnbrack, Andreas ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW; FOEHN; GRAVITY WAVE;

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EID: 0343415613     PISSN: 00058173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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