The spacing of orographic rainbands triggered by small-scale topography

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4222-4245

  Kirshbaum, Daniel J ^a,b   Rotunno, Richard ^a   Bryan, George H ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TOPOGRAPHY; WIND;

MOIST CONVECTION; OROGRAPHIC CLOUD; OROGRAPHIC RAINBANDS; SMALL-SCALE TOPOGRAPHY;

RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; TOPOGRAPHY; WIND;

LEE WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINBAND; SPACING; THUNDERSTORM; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38349144681     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAS2335.1     Document Type: Article

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