Complex bora flow in the lee of Southern Velebit

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 667, 2012, Pages 1490-1506

  Stiperski, Ivana ^a   Ivančan Picek, Branka ^a   Grubišić, Vanda ^b   Bajić, Alica ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Atmospheric rotors; Boundary layer separation; Critical level; Secondary orography; Undular bore; Waek; Wake vortex; Wave breaking

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY-LAYER SEPARATION; CRITICAL LEVEL; SECONDARY OROGRAPHY; UNDULAR BORE; WAEK; WAKE VORTEX; WAVEBREAKING;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLOUDS; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; VORTEX FLOW;

WAKES;

AIRFLOW; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPLEXITY; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHY; PREDICTION; SODAR; SPATIAL VARIATION; VORTEX FLOW; WAKE; WAVE BREAKING;

ALPS; CROATIA; DINARIC ALPS; EASTERN ALPS; VELEBIT;

EID: 84866147523     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1901     Document Type: Article

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