Thermally and dynamically induced pressure features over complex terrain from high-resolution analyses

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 50-65

  Bica, Benedikt ^a   Knabl, Thomas ^a   Steinacker, Reinhold ^a   Ratheiser, Matthias ^a   Dorninger, Manfred ^a   Lotteraner, Christoph ^a   Schneider, Stefan ^a   Chimani, Barbara ^a   Gepp, Wolfgang ^a   Tschannett, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; INTERPOLATION; WIND;

HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION ANALYSES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DATA SET; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY; WIND FIELD;

ALPINE COUNTY; CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846810084     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAM2418.1     Document Type: Article

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