The effect of small-scale hills on orographic drag

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 133, Issue 627, 2007, Pages 1345-1352

  Vosper, Simon B ^a   Brown, A R ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Effective roughness length; Mountain waves; Turbulent form drag

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; GRAVITY WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TURBULENT FLOW; WAKES;

MOUNTAIN WAVES; OROGRAPHIC DRAG; SMALL-SCALE HILLS; STRATIFIED FLOW; TURBULENT FORM DRAG;

LANDFORMS;

DRAG; HILL; MOUNTAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; STRATIFIED FLOW;

EID: 35548979833     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.101     Document Type: Article

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