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Mountain Wind Systems

Mountain Wind Systems is a mesoscale atmospheric circulation pattern characterized by thermally driven airflows that develop in response to diurnal heating and cooling over mountainous terrain, distinguishing it from larger-scale synoptic systems and other regional wind phenomena through its topographically constrained, cyclical behavior.

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On Severe Downslope Winds

Ronald B. Smith · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 1985 · 350 citations · Full text

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Rainfall Occurrence in the U.S. Warm Season: The Diurnal Cycle*

Richard E. Carbone, John D. Tuttle · Journal of Climate · 2008 · 248 citations

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The Relationship between Overlying Synoptic-Scale Flows and Winds within a Valley

C. David Whiteman, J. C. Doran · Journal of Applied Meteorology · 1993 · 239 citations · Full text

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Dry spots and wet spots in the Andean hotspot

Timothy J. Killeen, Michael W. Douglas, Trisha Consiglio et al. · Journal of Biogeography · 2007 · 228 citations

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The distribution and trends of fog and haze in the North China Plain over the past 30 years

G. Q. Fu, Wanyun Xu, Rongfang Yang et al. · Atmospheric chemistry and physics · 2014 · 217 citations · Full text

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  1. CD
    C. David Whiteman

    University of Utah, United States

    9 publications · 650 citations

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    Juerg Schmidli

    University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland

    6 publications · 244 citations

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  3. RM
    Robert M. Banta

    Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, United States

    6 publications · 359 citations

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  4. CF
    Clifford F. Mass

    University of Washington, United States

    6 publications · 172 citations

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  5. AS
    Andrew Sturman

    University of Canterbury, New Zealand

    6 publications · 180 citations

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  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    18 h-index

    93 publications

    3.7K citations

  2. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

    Boulder, United States

    13 h-index

    31 publications

    1.8K citations

  3. Universität Innsbruck

    Innsbruck, Austria

    12 h-index

    21 publications

    1.1K citations

  4. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    11 h-index

    41 publications

    1.5K citations

  5. ETH Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    11 h-index

    20 publications

    778 citations

  6. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    10 h-index

    20 publications

    574 citations

  7. Institute of Atmospheric Physics

    Beijing, China

    9 h-index

    36 publications

    1.5K citations

  8. Laboratoire d'Aérologie

    Toulouse, France

    9 h-index

    33 publications

    1.3K citations

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  1. Monthly Weather Review

    48 publications · 2.2K citations

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  3. Journal of Applied Meteorology

    24 publications · 1.1K citations

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  4. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

    17 publications · 1.1K citations

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  5. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

    16 publications · 609 citations

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