The temperature dependence of small-scale orographic precipitation enhancement

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 134, Issue 634 A, 2008, Pages 1167-1181

  Zängl, Guenther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Idealized numerical modelling; Seeder feeder mechanism; Small scale precipitation variability

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREEZING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TRAJECTORIES; LANDFORMS;

FREEZING LEVELS; IDEALIZED NUMERICAL MODELLING; SEEDER-FEEDER MECHANISM; SMALL-SCALE PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY;

RAIN;

NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINGAUGE; CLIMATOLOGY; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

AMBIENT FLOWS; CLIMATOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; FREEZING LEVELS; HIGH MOUNTAINS; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; IDEALIZED NUMERICAL MODELLING; LOW TEMPERATURES; MELTING LAYERS; MOUNTAIN HEIGHTS; MOUNTAIN PEAKS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATIONS; PRECIPITATION ENHANCEMENTS; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; QUALITATIVE AGREEMENTS; SEEDER-FEEDER MECHANISM; SMALL-SCALE PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; SPEED DIFFERENCES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCES;

EID: 50949096120     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.267     Document Type: Article

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