Mechanisms of along-valley winds and heat exchange over mountainous terrain

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3033-3047

  Schmidli, Juerg ^a,b   Rotunno, Richard ^b  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Diurnal effects; Heat budgets; Topographic effects; Winds

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE MODEL; DIURNAL CYCLE; DIURNAL EFFECTS; DYNAMIC SURFACE; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT EXCHANGE; LAND-SURFACE PROCESS; MOUNTAIN RIDGES; MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL SIMULATIONS; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; RADIATION TRANSFER; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; THREE-DIMENSIONAL TOPOGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; TURBULENT HEAT TRANSPORT; VALLEY WINDS; VOLUME EFFECT;

BUDGET CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT FLUX; HEATING; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SUBSIDENCE; WIND;

LANDFORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; ENERGY BUDGET; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRESSURE GRADIENT; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; WIND;

EID: 77958614228     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3473.1     Document Type: Article

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