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Mountain-valley Winds

Mountain–Valley Winds is a thermally driven local atmospheric circulation system distinguished by daytime upslope winds along mountain slopes and nighttime downslope winds toward valley floors, generated by differential heating and cooling of mountainous terrain relative to adjacent air.

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Mountain-valley CirculationMountain-valley Wind Systems

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408

Improving the Representation of Resolved and Unresolved Topographic Effects on Surface Wind in the WRF Model

Pedro A. Jiménez, Jimy Dudhia · Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology · 2011 · 526 citations · Full text

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Spatial Snow Modeling of Wind-Redistributed Snow Using Terrain-Based Parameters

A. H. Winstral, Kelly Elder, Robert E. Davis · Journal of Hydrometeorology · 2002 · 371 citations

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Mountain Weather and Climate: A General Overview and a Focus on Climatic Change in the Alps

Martin Beniston · Hydrobiologia · 2006 · 370 citations · Full text

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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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Measured and predicted air temperatures at basin to regional scales in the southern Appalachian mountains

Paul V. Bolstad, Lloyd W. Swift, Fred Collins et al. · Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · 1998 · 224 citations

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Authors

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  1. CD
    C. David Whiteman

    University of Utah, United States

    9 publications · 658 citations

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  2. DZ
    Dino Zardi

    University of Trento, Italy

    8 publications · 528 citations

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  3. JQ
    Jingxi Qin

    Southwest Jiaotong University, China

    4 publications · 164 citations

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  4. JS
    Juerg Schmidli

    University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland

    7 publications · 409 citations

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  5. FJ
    Fanying Jiang

    Southwest Jiaotong University, China

    4 publications · 146 citations

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Institutions

445

  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    21 h-index

    110 publications

    3.6K citations

  2. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

    Boulder, United States

    13 h-index

    45 publications

    6.9K citations

  3. Southwest Jiaotong University

    Chengdu, China

    13 h-index

    42 publications

    2.2K citations

  4. Universität Innsbruck

    Innsbruck, Austria

    13 h-index

    33 publications

    1.5K citations

  5. China Meteorological Administration

    Beijing, China

    11 h-index

    23 publications

    1.5K citations

  6. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

    Richland, United States

    10 h-index

    43 publications

    5.8K citations

  7. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    10 h-index

    21 publications

    788 citations

  8. Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources

    Lanzhou, China

    9 h-index

    43 publications

    1.5K citations

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  2. Journal of Applied Meteorology

    25 publications · 1.3K citations

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  3. Monthly Weather Review

    18 publications · 811 citations

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  5. Boundary-Layer Meteorology

    12 publications · 419 citations

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