Pressure perturbations and upslope flow over a heated, Isolated mountain

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4272-4288

  Geerts, Bart ^a   Miao, Qun ^a   Demko, J Cory ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLOUDS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LANDFORMS; STORMS; THUNDERSTORMS;

AIR DATUMS; ARIZONA; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; CUMULUS CONVECTIONS; DEEP CONVECTIONS; DIURNAL VARIATIONS; DOPPLER; HORIZONTAL PRESSURES; HYDROSTATIC BALANCES; IN PHASE; IN-SITU; MONSOON SEASONS; OUT-FLOWS; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURES; PRESSURE PERTURBATIONS; SURFACE FLOWS; UPSLOPE FLOWS;

PRESSURE GRADIENT;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; CONVERGENCE; DIURNAL VARIATION; KATABATIC FLOW; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PERTURBATION; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; THUNDERSTORM;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; SANTA CATALINA MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

CUPIDO;

EID: 57149123303     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2546.1     Document Type: Article

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