Comparison of observed and predicted slope winds

Conference · Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1980

OSTI ID:6820926

Horst, T W; Doran, J C

Nocturnal drainage winds begin when air adjacent to an inclined surface flows down the slop because it is cooled more than the free air at some distance horizontally from the surface. These slope winds merge and are channeled by the topography to form the larger-scale drainage or mountain winds. This paper discusses the slope flow phase of the drainage wind. The predictions of a simple model for flow down a two-dimensional slope are compared to observations of the drainage wind obtained during the July 1979 ASCOT field study near Middletown, CA.

• Research Organization: Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs., Richland, WA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 6820926
• Report Number(s): PNL-SA-8785; CONF-800480-6
• Resource Relation: Conference: ASCOT program planning meeting, Gettysburg, PA, USA, 15 Apr 1980
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
WIND
FLUID FLOW
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
AMBIENT TEMPERATURE
DRAINAGE
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
NOCTURNAL VARIATIONS
TOPOGRAPHY
DATA
INFORMATION
NUMERICAL DATA
VARIATIONS
500100* - Environment
Atmospheric- Basic Studies- (-1989)