Objective mesoscale analyses in complex terrain: Application to foehn cases during MAP
- Author(s)
- Barbara Chimani, Reinhold Steinacker, Christian Häberli, Manfred Dorninger, Simon Tschannett
- Abstract
A very dense surface network consisting of 38 stations was operated in the Rhine Valley and its tributaries during the MAP-SOP. The data was used to investigate foehn on the meso-scale. The "Vienna Enhanced Resolution Analysis" (VERA) is a model-independent analysis approach and was adapted to interpolate meteorological data in individual valleys. Minimizing different spatial derivatives as a cost function and taking the topography into account made it possible to get reasonably low level meteorological fields of pressure and potential temperature on a 2 km grid. The data of the surface stations used in the analyses were carefully quality-controlled. The examination of different foehn cases throughout the autumn of 1999 yields interesting and detailed features in the fields of pressure and potential temperature. Œ Gebrušder Borntraeger, Berlin, Stuttgart 2006.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Meteorology and Geophysics
- Journal
- Meteorologische Zeitschrift
- Volume
- 15
- Pages
- 117-125
- No. of pages
- 9
- ISSN
- 0941-2948
- Publication date
- 2006
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 1030 Physics, Astronomy
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/objective-mesoscale-analyses-in-complex-terrain-application-to-foehn-cases-during-map(a9684ba5-eb01-4621-86e2-14a9c8d694fc).html