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Valley Circulations

Valley Circulations is a mesoscale atmospheric circulation pattern characterized by thermally driven upslope winds during the day and downslope winds at night, occurring within mountainous terrain due to differential heating and cooling of valley surfaces relative to surrounding elevations.

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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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Impacts of sea-land and mountain-valley circulations on the air pollution in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH): A case study

Naifang Bei, Linna Zhao, Jiarui Wu et al. · Environmental Pollution · 2017 · 138 citations

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An Evaluation of the MM5, RAMS, and Meso-Eta Models at Subkilometer Resolution Using VTMX Field Campaign Data in the Salt Lake Valley

Shiyuan Zhong, Jerome D. Fast · Monthly Weather Review · 2003 · 133 citations

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The Daytime Evolution of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer and Convection over the Tibetan Plateau: Observations and Simulations

Kun Yang, Toshio Koike, Hideyuki Fujii et al. · Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II · 2004 · 127 citations · Full text

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Daytime Heat Transfer Processes over Mountainous Terrain

Juerg Schmidli · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 2013 · 101 citations

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Authors

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  1. MW
    Mathias W. Rotach

    Universität Innsbruck, Austria

    7 publications · 391 citations

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  2. CD
    C. David Whiteman

    University of Utah, United States

    3 publications · 298 citations

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  3. JE
    Joseph Egger

    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

    3 publications · 123 citations

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  4. JD
    Jerome D. Fast

    Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States

    3 publications · 181 citations

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  5. JS
    Juerg Schmidli

    University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland

    3 publications · 143 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

    Richland, United States

    6 h-index

    10 publications

    913 citations

  2. Universität Innsbruck

    Innsbruck, Austria

    6 h-index

    18 publications

    762 citations

  3. ETH Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    196 citations

  4. Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences

    Beijing, China

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    437 citations

  5. Los Alamos National Laboratory

    Los Alamos, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    244 citations

  6. Colorado State University

    Fort Collins, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    200 citations

  7. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    3 h-index

    10 publications

    188 citations

  8. Laboratoire des Écoulements Géophysiques et Industriels

    Grenoble, France

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    236 citations

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  1. Journal of Applied Meteorology

    11 publications · 643 citations

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  2. Monthly Weather Review

    8 publications · 421 citations

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  4. Boundary-Layer Meteorology

    6 publications · 158 citations

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