The orographic impact on patterns of embedded convection during the August 2005 Alpine flood

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 661, 2011, Pages 2092-2105

  Langhans, W ^a   Gohm, A ^b   Zangl G ^c  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Convergence line; Orographic precipitation; Precipitation band; WRF model

Indexed keywords

BANDED STRUCTURES; CONVECTIVE CELL; CONVECTIVE INITIATION; CONVECTIVE INTENSITY; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; CONVERGENCE LINE; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; MESOSCALE; MOUNTAIN RIDGES; NONSTATIONARY; NUMERICAL MODELS; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION; PRIMARY MECHANISM; WRF MODEL;

EXPERIMENTS; PARALLEL FLOW; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; FLOOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINBAND; TOPOGRAPHY;

GERMANY;

EID: 83255185203     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.879     Document Type: Article

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