Numerical study of a downslope windstorm in Northwestern Greece

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 178-193

  Koletsis, I ^a,b   Lagouvardos, K ^a   Kotroni, V ^a   Bartzokas, A ^b  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Downslope winds; Mountain wave breaking; Windstorm

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL LEVEL; DOWNSLOPE WINDS; DOWNSLOPE WINDSTORM; ELECTRIC POWER NETWORKS; MM5 MODELS; MODEL RESULTS; MOUNTAIN WAVE BREAKING; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; NUMERICAL STUDIES; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; STABLE LAYER; SYNERGISTIC COMBINATIONS; WEATHER EVENTS; WIND EVENTS; WIND FIELD; WIND GUST; WINDSTORM;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; WIND;

LANDFORMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GUST; MOUNTAIN; NUMERICAL METHOD; WAVE BREAKING; WIND FIELD; WIND FORCING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 69049084460     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2009.05.012     Document Type: Article

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