Mountain torque events at the Tibetan Plateau

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 389-404

  Egger, Joseph ^a   Hoinka, Klaus Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ANGULAR MOMENTUM; CORIOLIS FORCE; CURVE FITTING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TORQUE; WIND;

BAROTROPIC PERTURBATION; MOUNTAIN TORQUE; QUASIGEOSTROPHIC WAVE; TOPOGRAPHIC INSTABILITY;

LANDFORMS;

FORECASTING METHOD; MOUNTAIN REGION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; SURFACE PRESSURE; TORQUE; TURBULENCE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 40949132374     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2126.1     Document Type: Article

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