Exploration of some convective regimes over the Alpine orography

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 130, Issue 597 PART B, 2004, Pages 481-502

  Stein, J ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Convection; Mesoscale Alpine Programme; Orographic precipitation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; RAIN; WIND EFFECTS;

RAIN DISTRIBUTION;

METEOROLOGY;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CONVECTION; DIABATIC PROCESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 1642302388     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.02.220     Document Type: Article

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