Diurnal mountain wind systems

D Zardi, CD Whiteman - … research and forecasting: Recent progress and …, 2012 - Springer
Diurnal mountain wind systems are local thermally driven wind systems that form over
mountainous terrain and are produced by the buoyancy effects associated with the diurnal …

Characteristics of climate change refugia for A ustralian biodiversity

AE Reside, JA Welbergen, BL Phillips… - Austral …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying refugia is a critical component of effective conservation of biodiversity under
anthropogenic climate change. However, despite a surge in conceptual and practical …

A climatic basis for microrefugia: the influence of terrain on climate

SZ Dobrowski - Global change biology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
There is compelling evidence from glacial and interglacial periods of the Quaternary of the
utilization of microrefugia. Microrefugia are sites that support locally favorable climates …

Temperature trends at high elevations: patterns across the globe

NC Pepin, JD Lundquist - Geophysical Research Letters, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Most climate models suggest amplification of global warming in high mountains, but
observations are less clear. Using comprehensive, homogeneity‐adjusted temperature …

Deep-learning-based gridded downscaling of surface meteorological variables in complex terrain. Part I: Daily maximum and minimum 2-m temperature

Y Sha, DJ Gagne II, G West… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Many statistical downscaling methods require observational inputs and expert knowledge
and thus cannot be generalized well across different regions. Convolutional neural networks …

How much influence does landscape-scale physiography have on air temperature in a mountain environment?

SZ Dobrowski, JT Abatzoglou, JA Greenberg… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2009 - Elsevier
Spatio-temporal patterns of temperature in mountain environments are complex due to both
regional synoptic-scale and landscape-scale physiographic controls in these systems …

Effects of urbanization on the temperature inversion breakup in a mountain valley with implications for air quality

AM Rendón, JF Salazar, CA Palacio… - Journal of applied …, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
Many cities located in valleys with limited ventilation experience serious air pollution
problems. The ventilation of an urban valley can be limited not only by orographic barriers …

[HTML][HTML] Local evaporation controlled by regional atmospheric circulation in the Altiplano of the Atacama Desert

F Lobos-Roco, O Hartogensis… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
We investigate the influence of regional atmospheric circulation on the evaporation of a
saline lake in the Altiplano (also known as the Andean Plateau) region of the Atacama …

Evaluation of CESM1 (WACCM) free-running and specified dynamics atmospheric composition simulations using global multispecies satellite data records

L Froidevaux, DE Kinnison, R Wang… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
We have analyzed near-global stratospheric data (and mesospheric data as well for H 2 O)
in terms of absolute abundances, variability, and trends for O 3, H 2 O, HCl, N 2 O, and HNO …

High-resolution large-eddy simulations of flow in a steep Alpine valley. Part II: Flow structure and heat budgets

AP Weigel, FK Chow, MW Rotach… - Journal of Applied …, 2006 - journals.ametsoc.org
This paper analyzes the three-dimensional flow structure and the heat budget in a typical
medium-sized and steep Alpine valley—the Riviera Valley in southern Switzerland. Aircraft …