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Night drainage winds

Nächtliche Hangwinde

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A very simple model of night drainage winds is presented giving the wind velocity of a cooled layer as a function of the following parameters: net radiation loss, friction coefficient, the angle of the slope and the lapse rate in the environment above the treated layer.

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Ein einfaches Modell nächtlicher Hangwinde wurde entwickelt, welches die Windgeschwindigkeit als Funktion der folgenden Parameter wiedergibt: Abkühlung durch Ausstrahlung, Reibungskoeffizient, Neigung des Hanges und vertikaler Temperaturgradient oberhalb der betrachteten Hangluftschicht.

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  1. Z. Petkovšek &  A. Hočevar

    Present address: University of Ljubljana, Yugoslavia

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    Petkovšek, Z., Hočevar, A. Night drainage winds. Arch. Met. Geoph. Biokl. A. 20, 353–360 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02248628

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