Summer mistral at the exit of the Rhône valley

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 605, 2005, Pages 353-375

  Drobinski, Philippe ^a   Bastin, S ^a   Guenard, V ^b   Caccia, J L ^b   Dabas, A M ^c   Delville, P ^d   Protat, A ^e   Reitebuch, O ^f   Werner, C ^f  

^a INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^b Laboratoire de Sondages Electromagnetiques de l'Environnement Terrestre   (France)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^d Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers   (France)

^e SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^f GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hydraulic jump; Mountain wake; Planetary boundary layer; Valley flow

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; DYNAMICS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL RADAR;

MISTRAL; SUMMERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIRFLOW; BOUNDARY LAYER; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MOUNTAIN REGION; WAKE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; RHONE VALLEY; WORLD;

EID: 23044434642     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.63     Document Type: Article

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