Influence of the valley surroundings on valley wind dynamics

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 561-577

  Schmidli, Juerg ^a,b   Rotunno, Richard ^b  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Valley mountain flows

Indexed keywords

HEAT BUDGET; HEAT EXCHANGE; MOUNTAIN RIDGES; PRESSURE DIFFERENCES; TEMPERATURE PERTURBATIONS; TOPOGRAPHIC AMPLIFICATION; UP-VALLEY WINDS; VALLEY WINDS; VALLEY/MOUNTAIN FLOWS;

PRESSURE GRADIENT; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND;

LANDFORMS;

HEAT BUDGET; HEAT FLOW; MOUNTAIN REGION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; VALLEY; WIND FIELD;

EID: 84857077565     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-0129.1     Document Type: Article

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