On the onset of bora and the formation of rotors and jumps near a mountain gap

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 134, Issue 630, 2008, Pages 21-46

  Gohm, Alexander ^a   Mayr, Georg J ^a   Fix, Andreas ^b   Giez, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Airbone lidar; Downslope windstorm; Gap winds; Lee waves; Numerical modelling

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BACKSCATTERING; BOUNDARY LAYERS; HYDRAULIC JUMP; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; WIND;

AIRBORNE-AEROSOL BACK-SCATTER LIDAR MEASUREMENT; DOWNSLOPE WINDSTORM; GAP WINDS; MESOSCALE ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; SHALLOW-WATER MODEL (SWM);

METEOROLOGY;

AMPLITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; GRAVITY WAVE; LEE WAVE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TRANSECT; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT MIXING; WIND FIELD; WIND SHEAR;

FALCONIDAE;

EID: 41949138446     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.206     Document Type: Article

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