On the interaction between sea breeze and summer mistral at the exit of the Rhône Valley

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1647-1668

  Bastin, Sophie ^a,b   Drobinski, Philippe ^a   Guénard, Vincent ^c   Caccia, Jean Luc ^c   Campistron, Bernard ^d   Dabas, Alain M ^e   Delville, Patricia ^f   Reitebuch, Oliver ^g   Werner, Christian ^g  

^a INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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

^d LABORATOIRE D AÉROLOGIE   (France)

^e CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^f STATION DE RADIOASTRONOMIE DE NANÇAY   (France)

^g GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LANDFORMS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; WIND EFFECTS;

NONHYDROSTATIC MESOSCALE SIMULATIONS; SEA BREEZE; SUMMER MISTRAL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SEA BREEZE; SPATIAL VARIATION; ZONAL WIND;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; RHONE VALLEY; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33645521306     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3116.1     Document Type: Article

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