Including Coriolis effects in the Prandtl model for katabatic flow

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 133, Issue 622, 2007, Pages 101-106

  Stiperski, Ivana ^a   Kavčič, Iva ^b   Grisogono, Branko ^b   Durran, Dale R ^c  

^a METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Polar vortex; Steady state; Strongly stable boundary layers

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CORIOLIS FORCE; GLACIERS; PRANDTL NUMBER;

KATABATIC FLOW; POLAR VORTEX;

AERODYNAMICS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CORIOLIS FORCE; KATABATIC FLOW; POLAR VORTEX; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM;

EID: 33947221081     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.19     Document Type: Article

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