Lee-wave resonances over double bell-shaped obstacles

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1205-1228

  Grubišć, Vanda ^a,c   Stiperski, Ivana ^b  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLED OCEAN ATMOSPHERE MESOSCALE PREDICTION SYSTEM; FREE-SLIP; HALF-WIDTH; HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL SIMULATION; HIGHER HARMONICS; LEE WAVES; LOWER BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SEPARATION DISTANCES; SIERRA NEVADA; SYMMETRIC FLOW; VALLEY WIDTH; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR; WAVE AMPLITUDES; WAVE DRAGS; WAVE MODES; WAVE RESONANCES; WAVEFIELDS; WIND SPEED;

ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; BELLS; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; FLOW PATTERNS; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RESONANCE;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE;

AMPLITUDE; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; BOUNDARY CONDITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG COEFFICIENT; LEE WAVE; NONLINEAR WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; RESONANCE; SYMMETRY; WAVELENGTH; WIND SHEAR;

CALIFORNIA; INYO MOUNTAINS; NORTH AMERICA; OWENS VALLEY; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69849086116     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2885.1     Document Type: Article

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