High-resolution numerical modeling of thermally driven slope winds in a valley with strong capping

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1859-1880

  Catalano, Franco ^a   Cenedese, Antonio ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPPING INVERSION; CIRCULATION DYNAMICS; COLD POOL; COMBINED EFFECT; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; DOMAIN GEOMETRY; EDDY VISCOSITY; GRAVITY CURRENTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; KATABATIC FLOW; LENGTH SCALE; MICRO-SCALES; MIDLATITUDES; MONIN-OBUKHOV SIMILARITY THEORY; NUMERICAL MODELING; PRE-INTEGRATION; RETURN FLOW; SLOPE WINDS; SLOPING TERRAINS; SURFACE LAYERS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THERMAL FORCING; THERMALLY DRIVEN; TIME VARYING; WALL LAYERS;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; LAKES;

LANDFORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; KATABATIC FLOW; LAND BREEZE; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MONIN-OBUKHOV THEORY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; VALLEY;

EID: 77957741267     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2385.1     Document Type: Article

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