Call number:
AWI A6-94-0044
In:
Advances in geophysics, Volume 21
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
Seiten 87-230
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Series Statement:
Advances in geophysics Volume 21
Language:
English
Note:
Contents
1. An Introduction to Mountain Effects
2. The Flow over Hills and the Generation of Mountain Waves
2.1 Buoyancy Forces
2.2 The Theory of Two- Dimensional Mountain Waves
2.3 Observations of Mountain Waves
2.4 The Three-Dimensional Flow over Isolated Hills
2.5 Large-Amplitude Mountains and Blocking
2.6 The Observed Barrier Effect of Mountains-The Fohn and Bora
2. 7 The Influence of the Boundary Layer on Mountain Flows
2.8 Slope Winds and Mountain and Valley Winds
3. The Flow near Mesoscale and Synoptic-Scale Mountains
3.1 Quasi-geostrophic Flow over a Mountain
3.2 The Effect of Inertia on the Flow over Mesoscale Mountains
3.3 Theories of Lee Cyclogenesis
4. Orographic Control of Precipitation
4.1 Observations of Rainfall Distribution
4.2 The Mechanism of Upslope Rain
4.3 The Redistribution of Rainfall by Small Hills
4.4 Orographic-Convective Precipitation
5. Planetary-Scale Mountain Waves
5.1 A Vertically Integrated Model of Topographically Forced Planetary Waves
5.2 The Vertical Structure of Planetary Waves on a ,8-Plane between Bounding Latitudes
5.3 Models of Stationary Planetary Waves Allowing Meridional Propagation and Lateral Variation in the Background Wind
References
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