Analysis of mountain-valley precipitation differences in the Alps

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 311-321

  Wastl, Clemens ^a   Zängl, Günther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TOPOGRAPHY;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MOUNTAIN; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TOPOGRAPHY;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 58149094560     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2008/0291     Document Type: Conference Paper

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