Along-valley structure of daytime thermally driven flows in the flows in the Wipp Valley

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 733-751

  Rucker, Magdalena ^a,b,c   Banta, Robert M ^b   Steyn, Douw G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c The SeaBreeze Power Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RADAR; PRESSURE GRADIENT;

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; AUSTRIA; DIFFERENTIAL HEATING; DOPPLER LIDARS; FIELD CAMPAIGNS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HORIZONTAL PRESSURES; MESOSCALE; SIDE-WALLS; VALLEY FLOWS; VOLUME FLUXES;

LANDFORMS;

AIRFLOW; AMBIENT AIR; DOPPLER LIDAR; HEATING; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRESSURE GRADIENT; VALLEY;

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

EID: 57649165708     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAMC1319.1     Document Type: Article

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