Diurnal circulation of the Bolivian Altiplano. Part II: Theoretical and model investigations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3624-3643

  Zängl, Günther ^a   Egger, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; THERMODYNAMICS; WIND;

BOLIVIAN ALTIPLANO; DIURNAL CIRCULATION; PERTURBATION TEMPERATURE ADVECTION; PLATEAU;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DIURNAL VARIATION; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; SEA BREEZE;

ALTIPLANO; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 31344470882     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3033.1     Document Type: Article

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