A reexamination of the valley wind system in the Alpine Inn Valley with numerical simulations

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 241-256

  Zängl, Guenther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; JET FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; VALLEY; WIND FIELD;

ALPS; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 11244283378     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-003-0056-5     Document Type: Article

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