Upstream effects of an Alpine-scale mountain ridge under various flow angles

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 291-296

  Zängl, Günther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GEOPHYSICS; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WIND;

AIRFLOW; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BOUNDARY LAYER; CORIOLIS FORCE; FRICTION; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW;

EID: 33646068089     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2004/0013-0291     Document Type: Article

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