Airflow and precipitation fields within deep alpine valleys observed by airborne Doppler radar

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1497-1513

  Bousquet, Olivier ^a   Smull, Bradley F ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR;

DIGITAL TERRAIN INFORMATION; OROGRAPHY;

METEOROLOGY;

AIRBORNE SENSING; AIRFLOW; DATA PROCESSING; DOPPLER RADAR; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; VALLEY;

EID: 0344551991     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(2003)042<1497:AAPFWD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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