Meteorological events affecting cold-air pools in a small basin

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2223-2234

  Dorninger, Manfred ^a   Whiteman, C David ^b   Bica, Benedikt ^a,c   Eisenbach, Stefan ^a   Pospichal, Bernhard ^a   Steinacker, Reinhold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cold pools; Inversions; Mountain meteorology; Temperature; Valley mountain flows

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COVER; COLD POOL; DATA LOGGER; GENTLE SLOPES; HIGH ALTITUDE; INVERSIONS; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; STRONG WINDS; TEMPERATURE DISTURBANCE; TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS; VALLEY/MOUNTAIN FLOWS; WEATHER CHARTS; WEATHER STATIONS; WIND DIRECTIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY; SCHEMATIC DIAGRAMS; TEMPERATURE;

LAKES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BASIN; BOUNDARY LAYER; COLD AIR; DATA INVERSION; MOUNTAIN REGION; POOL; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VALLEY; WIND DIRECTION;

ALPS; EASTERN ALPS;

EID: 84856202291     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JAMC2681.1     Document Type: Article

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