The exceptional Alpine south foehn event of 14-16 November 2002: A case study

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 98, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 217-238

  Zängl, Gunther ^a   Hornsteiner, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLONE; FOEHN; GRAVITY WAVE; OROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 34249782059     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-006-0257-9     Document Type: Article

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