Daytime heat transfer processes related to slope flows and turbulent convection in an idealized mountain valley

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3739-3756

  Serafin, Stefano ^a   Zardi, Dino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Convection; Convective scale processes; Eddies; Large eddy simulations; Mountain meteorology; Turbulence; Valley mountain flows

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE-SCALE PROCESSES; EDDIES; MOUNTAIN METEOROLOGY; VALLEY/MOUNTAIN FLOWS;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; HEATING; LANDFORMS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; METEOROLOGY;

HEAT CONVECTION;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MOUNTAIN REGION; SLOPE; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; VALLEY; WIND FIELD;

EID: 78649456123     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3428.1     Document Type: Article

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