Local wind system in the Rongbuk Valley on the northern slope of Mt. Everest

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 13, 2008, Pages

  Zou, Han ^a,b   Zhou, Libo ^a   Ma, Shupo ^a   Li, Peng ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Li, Aiguo ^a   Jia, Jingjing ^a   Gao, Dengyi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; FLOW SIMULATION; LANDFORMS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AIR MOTION; ASCENDING FLOW; ATMOSPHERIC PARAMETERS; DATA ANALYSIS; HIMALAYAS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; SHIELDING EFFECTS; VALLEY FLOW; VALLEY WIND; VERTICAL COMPONENTS; WIND SYSTEMS;

WIND EFFECTS;

NUMERICAL MODEL; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VERTICAL MOVEMENT; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HIMALAYAS; KHUMBU HIMAL; MOUNT EVEREST; RONGBUK VALLEY; XIZANG;

EID: 53749098050     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033466     Document Type: Article

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