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Mountain Waves and Downslope Winds

  • Durran D
American Meteorological Society, (1990), 59-81
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-935704-25-6_4
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Abstract

Discussion of fundamental concepts including parcel oscillations in a stable atmosphere, wave propagation. Theory of small-amplitude mountain waves. Effects of nonlinearity. Hydraulics and subcritical and supercritical regions. Forecasting.

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Durran, D. R. (1990). Mountain Waves and Downslope Winds. In Atmospheric Processes over Complex Terrain (pp. 59–81). American Meteorological Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-935704-25-6_4

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