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On the escarpment wind profile
Author(s) -
Jensen Niels Otto,
Peterson Ernest W.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49710444113
Subject(s) - escarpment , geology , meteorology , flow (mathematics) , wind profile power law , wind speed , geography , geomorphology , geometry , mathematics
It is shown that miscellaneous theories for flow over low ridges give results consistent with each other and that these results can be used to quantify certain observed features of the wind profile downwind from an escarpment.