The effect of the Zagros Mountains on the formation and maintenance of the Iran Anticyclone using RegCM4

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 112, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 91-100

  Zarrin, Azar ^a   Ghaemi, Hooshang ^b   Azadi, Majid ^c   Mofidi, Abbas ^d   Mirzaei, Ebrahim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Iran Meteorological Organization   (Iran)

^c Atmospheric Science and Meteorological Research Center ASMERC   (Iran)

^d FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIABATIC PROCESS; HEATING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TROPOSPHERE;

IRAN; ZAGROS;

EID: 79955879872     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-011-0134-z     Document Type: Article

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