Numerical simulations of low-CAPE flows over a mountain ridge

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2391-2401

  Miglietta, Mario Marcello ^a   Rotunno, Richard ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold pool; Convection; Numerical analysis modeling; Orographic effects; Rainfall

Indexed keywords

COLD POOL; CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; FUNCTIONAL DEPENDENCE; MESOSCALE; MOUNTAIN RIDGES; NON-DIMENSIONAL PARAMETERS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS; OROGRAPHIC FORCING; PARAMETER SPACES; RAIN RATES; SOLUTION PRECIPITATION; STATIONARY FEATURES; THREE PARAMETERS; TIME-SCALES; UNSTABLE FLOWS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LANDFORMS; RAIN;

EXPERIMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; POTENTIAL ENERGY; RAINFALL;

EID: 77955563737     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3378.1     Document Type: Article

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