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Valley Wind Direction

Valley Wind Direction is a meteorological construct that specifies the orientation of airflow within a valley, distinguished by its characterization of the predominant direction of thermally driven winds arising from diurnal heating and cooling cycles in mountainous terrain.

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162

Authors

101

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2017–2026

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Publications

57

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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Valley winds and slope winds ? Observations and elementary thoughts

I. Vergeiner, E. Dreiseitl · Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics · 1987 · 192 citations

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Miocene and Pliocene paleoclimate of the Dry Valleys region, Southern Victoria land: a geomorphological approach

D. R. Marchant, George H. Denton · Marine Micropaleontology · 1996 · 133 citations · Full text

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A Climatological Study of Thermally Driven Wind Systems of the U.S. Intermountain West

Jebb Q. Stewart, C. David Whiteman, W. James Steenburgh et al. · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 2002 · 89 citations · Full text

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Impact of atmospheric boundary layer depth variability and wind reversal on the diurnal variability of aerosol concentration at a valley site

Sandip Pal, Temple R. Lee, Stephanie Phelps et al. · The Science of The Total Environment · 2014 · 81 citations

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Authors

162

  1. CD
    C. David Whiteman

    University of Utah, United States

    5 publications · 418 citations

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  2. LL
    Lavinia Laiti

    University of Trento, Italy

    2 publications · 103 citations

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  3. IV
    I. Vergeiner

    Universität Innsbruck, Austria

    2 publications · 208 citations

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  4. DZ
    Dino Zardi

    University of Trento, Italy

    2 publications · 103 citations

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  5. JC
    J. C. Doran

    Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States

    2 publications · 270 citations

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Institutions

101

  1. University of Utah

    Salt Lake City, United States

    4 h-index

    10 publications

    175 citations

  2. Universität Innsbruck

    Innsbruck, Austria

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    511 citations

  3. Central Institution for Meteorology and Geodynamics

    Vienna, Austria

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    151 citations

  4. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

    Richland, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    556 citations

  5. University of Sheffield

    Sheffield, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    110 citations

  6. Finnish Meteorological Institute

    Helsinki, Finland

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    53 citations

  7. University of Canterbury

    Christchurch, New Zealand

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    105 citations

  8. Northern Research Station

    Madison, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    143 citations

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  1. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

    JAMC · 5 publications · 134 citations

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  3. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

    5 publications · 277 citations

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  4. Journal of Applied Meteorology

    4 publications · 330 citations

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  5. Boundary-Layer Meteorology

    4 publications · 129 citations

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