Large-scale-flow interactions with the Alps and their impact on the low-level temperature field in the northern foreland

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 379-386

  Zängl, Günther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; JETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND EFFECTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 31344477109     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2005/0008     Document Type: Article

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