Numerical modelling of katabatic flow over a melting outflow glacier

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 509-534

  Söderberg, Stefan ^a   Parmhed, Oskar ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Glacier; Katabatic flow; Non local transport; Scorer parameter; Stable boundary layer

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; SNOW; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TURBULENCE;

FREE TROPOSPHERE ALOFT; KATABATIC FLOW; SCORER PARAMETER; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

GLACIERS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GLACIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; SNOW; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TURBULENCE;

BOUNDARY LAYER; GLACIER FLOW; KATABATIC FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; OUTFLOW; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 33748358598     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-006-9059-3     Document Type: Article

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