Can trapped gravity waves be relevant for severe foehn windstorms? A case study

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 203-212

  Zängl, Günther ^a   Hornsteiner, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY WAVES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STORMS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND EFFECTS;

FOEHN; GRAVITY WAVE; NUMERICAL METHOD; SIMULATION; STORM; SURFACE WIND; WAVE BREAKING; WIND VELOCITY;

ALPS; BAVARIA; BAVARIAN ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; ISAR VALLEY;

EID: 34249798170     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2007/0199     Document Type: Article

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