Katabatic flows and their relation to the formation of convective clouds-idealized case studies

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1531-1546

  Trachte, Katja ^a   Bendix, Joerg ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Convection; Cumulus clouds; Density currents; Downslope winds; South America; Topographic effects

Indexed keywords

CUMULUS CLOUD; DENSITY CURRENTS; DOWNSLOPE; SOUTH AMERICA; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS;

CLOUDS; EXPERIMENTS; HEAT CONVECTION;

LANDFORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; COLD AIR; COLD FRONT; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CUMULUS; KATABATIC FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRATIFICATION; SURFACE FLUX; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WIND;

ANDES;

EID: 84868138793     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-0184.1     Document Type: Article

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