Observed mass transports accompanying upstream orographic blocking during MAP IOP8

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 132, Issue 620, 2006, Pages 2393-2413

  Bousquet, Olivier ^a,b   Smull, Bradley F ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Centre de Meteorologie Radar   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne Doppler radar; Alps Apennines; Mass budget; Mesoscale Alpine Programme; Orographic precipitation; Upstream blocking; Valley flow

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; DOPPLER RADAR; LANDFORMS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

AIRBORNE DOPPLER RADAR; MASS BUDGET; OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION; UPSTREAM BLOCKING; VALLEY FLOW;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

AIRFLOW; DOPPLER RADAR; MASS BALANCE; MASS TRANSPORT; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; PO BASIN; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33751538634     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.05.103     Document Type: Article

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