A systematic study of longwave radiative heating and cooling within valleys and basins using a three-dimensional radiative transfer model

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2473-2489

  Hoch, Sebastian W ^a   Whiteman, C David ^a   Mayer, Bernhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Heat budgets; Inversions; Longwave radiation; Mountain meteorology; Radiative transfer

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COOLING; HEAT RADIATION; HEATING; LANDFORMS; METEOR IMPACTS; RADIANT HEATING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC PROFILE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE PROFILES; HEAT BUDGET; INVERSIONS; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; MOUNTAIN METEOROLOGIES; NEAR SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

BOUNDARY LAYER; HEAT BUDGET; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; MOUNTAIN; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84856203470     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-083.1     Document Type: Article

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