Assessing the impact of the tropopause on mountain waves and orographic precipitation using linear theory and numerical simulations

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 803-820

  Siler, Nicholas ^a   Durran, Dale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CLOUDS; LANDFORMS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; DOWNSLOPE WINDSTORM; MOUNTAIN WAVE; NONDIMENSIONAL; OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION; PARTIAL REFLECTION; PRECIPITATION RATES; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; TROPOPAUSE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; WIND;

CASCADE RANGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84923104643     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-14-0200.1     Document Type: Article

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