Effects of moist Froude number and CAPE on a conditionally unstable flow over a mesoscale mountain ridge

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 331-350

  Chen, Shu Hua ^a   Lin, Yuh Lang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPORATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); UNSTEADY FLOW;

CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGY (CAPE); DOWNSTREAM-PROPAGATING CLOUD SYSTEM; FROUDE NUMBERS; OROGRAPHIC STRATIFORM PRECIPITATION SYSTEM;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

MOUNTAIN; UNSTEADY FLOW;

DOPPLER RADAR; FROUDE NUMBER; MOUNTAIN; UNSTEADY FLOW;

EID: 14744298074     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-3380.1     Document Type: Article

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