Objective forecasting of Foehn winds for a subgrid-scale alpine valley

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 205-218

  Drechsel, Susanne ^a   Mayr, Georg J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PROBABILITY; WIND;

BERNOULLI EQUATION; FOEHN WINDS; WIND SPEED;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

FOEHN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PROBABILITY; TOPOGRAPHY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

ALPS; AUSTRIA; CENTRAL ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; TYROL; WIPP VALLEY;

EID: 44849137774     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007WAF2006021.1     Document Type: Article

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