Circulation systems related to orography, valley winds, energy budgets, cloudiness, precipitation, evaporation, fog, lightening, snow avalanches and valley air pollution; general properties of mountain perturbations, adiabatic meso-scale perturbations in a straight atmospheric flow, adiabatic synoptic scale perturbations, dissipation of mechanical energy, mountain drag, modeling aspects of mountain waves, mountain generated momentum fluxes, theory of linear gravity waves, orographic gravity-wave drag, its parameterization and influence in general circulation models.
Text/Reference Books:
1. Roger A Pielke : Mesoscale Meteorological Modelling, Academic Press
2. B.W. Atkinson: Mesoscale Atmospheric Circulation, Academic Press
3. P S Ray: Mesoscale Meteorology and Forecasts, American Meteorological Society |