Orographic flow response to variations in upstream humidity

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3557-3570

  Reeves, Heather Dawn ^a   Rotunno, Richard ^b  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE VEHICLES; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CONDENSATION; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CONTROL THEORY; FREEZING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WIND EFFECTS;

ANALYTIC FORMULAS; CONTROL PARAMETERS; CRITICAL THRESHOLDS; DIMENSIONAL ANALYSES; FLOW DECELERATIONS; FREEZING LEVELS; MOIST ATMOSPHERES; NONDIMENSIONAL PARAMETERS; OROGRAPHIC FLOWS; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; STABLE FLOWS; STATE SOLUTIONS; STATIC STABILITIES;

FLOW SIMULATION;

AIRFLOW; CONDENSATION; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; THRESHOLD;

EID: 58049100190     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2762.1     Document Type: Article

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