Cooling by melting precipitation in Alpine valleys: An idealized numerical modelling study

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 132, Issue 618 A, 2006, Pages 1489-1508

  Unterstrasser, S ^a   Zängl, Guenther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Latent heat of fusion; Snow; Volume factor

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; LANDFORMS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; TRANSITION FLOW; TURBULENCE;

AIR-MASS EXCHANGE; LATENT HEAT; MELTING PRECIPITATION; TURBULENT EDDIES; VOLUME FACTOR; WARM-AIR ADVECTION;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

AIR MASS; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; COOLING; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MESOSCALE MOTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SNOW;

EID: 33748790929     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.05.158     Document Type: Article

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