Dynamics of orographically triggered banded convection in sheared moist orographic flows

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3542-3561

  Fuhrer, Oliver ^a   Schär, Christoph ^a  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY WAVES; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY; WIND;

CLOUD-RESOLVING NUMERICAL MODEL; HORIZONTAL COMPUTATIONAL RESOLUTION; OROGRAPHIC CONVECTION; SMALL-AMPLITUDE TOPOGRAPHIC VARIATIONS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY WAVES; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TOPOGRAPHY; WIND;

CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; GRAVITY WAVE; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL VARIATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WIND PROFILE;

EID: 35748961977     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS4024.1     Document Type: Article

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