Observations and simulation of katabatic flows during a heatwave in Iceland

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 99-110

  Ágústsson, Hálfdán ^a,b,c   Cuxart, Joan ^d   Mira, Antoni ^d   Ólafsson, Haraldur ^a,b,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b Institute for Meteorological Research   (Iceland)

^c ICELANDIC METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE   (Iceland)

^d UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FROUDE NUMBER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WIND;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; FROUDE NUMBER; HEAT FLUX; KATABATIC FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHY; SIMULATION; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WIND;

ARCTIC; ICELAND;

EID: 33947382623     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2007/0189     Document Type: Article

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