Relief shapes and precipitation on the south side of the Alps - Part I: Relief characteristics and dry sensitivity simulations

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 83-90

  Rakovec, Jože ^a   Gaberšek, Saša ^a   Vrhovec, Tomaž ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; JETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); ROTATIONAL FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 31344433219     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2004/0013-0083     Document Type: Article

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