Reversed flow in the south-Alpine Toce Valley during MAP-IOP 8: Further analysis of latent cooling effects

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 133, Issue 628, 2007, Pages 1717-1729

  Zängl, Guenther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cooling by melting and evaporation; Orographic precipitation; Valley flows

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; EVAPORATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

HYDROMETEORS; OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLOUD WATER; COOLING; EVAPORATION; FLOW FIELD; FLOW MODELING; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; MELTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRESSURE FIELD;

EID: 36749062556     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.155     Document Type: Article

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