Warm-air intrusions in Arizona's meteor crater

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1010-1025

  Adler, Bianca ^a   Whiteman, C David ^a   Hoch, Sebastian W ^a   Lehner, Manuela ^a   Kalthoff, Norbert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boundary currents; Boundary layer; Cold pools; Drainage flow; Dry intrusions; Dynamics

Indexed keywords

ARIZONA; ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY; BOUNDARY CURRENTS; COLD POOL; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DRAINAGE FLOWS; DRY INTRUSIONS; HYDRAULIC FLOW; MESOSCALE; METEOR CRATERS; STABLE SURFACE LAYER; STRONG WINDS; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; UPSTREAM CONDITIONS; WARM AIR; WARMER AIR;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DRAINAGE; DYNAMICS;

METEOR IMPACTS;

BOUNDARY CURRENT; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CRATER; INVERSE ANALYSIS; ISOTHERM; METEOR; NUMERICAL MODEL; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864942569     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-0158.1     Document Type: Article

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