Effects of inversion height and surface heat flux on downslope windstorms

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3750-3764

  Smith, Craig M ^a   Skyllingstad, Eric D ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluxes; Inversions; Large eddy simulations; Mountain meteorology; Wind

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLIMATOLOGY; FLUXES; HEAT FLUX; LANDFORMS; WIND;

CRITICAL LAYER; DOWNSLOPE; DOWNSLOPE WINDSTORM; FALKLAND ISLANDS; FLOW RESPONSE; HYDRAULIC BEHAVIOR; INVERSION STRENGTH; INVERSIONS; JET LENGTH; LARGE EDDY; LARGE VERTICAL DISPLACEMENT; MOUNTAIN WAVE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; REDUCED GRAVITY; RELATIVE HEIGHTS; SHALLOW WATERS; SURFACE COOLING; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; SURFACE HEATING; TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS; WIND STORMS; WIND VELOCITIES;

STORMS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; HEAT FLUX; INVERSION LAYER; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MOUNTAIN REGION; STORM;

EID: 84862954536     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011MWR3619.1     Document Type: Article

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