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Atmosphere, 2021 Downslope windstorms are known sources of hazardous weather, such as severe gusty winds, rapid temperature changes, ship icing, strong turbulence and others, posing a great danger to people and infrastructure.
Anna A. Shestakova
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A Numerical Study of Windstorms in the Lee of the Taebaek Mountains, South Korea: Characteristics and Generation Mechanisms [PDF]
Atmosphere, 2020 The Yeongdong region, located east of the Taebaek Mountains, South Korea, often experiences severe windstorms in spring, causing a lot of damages, especially when forest fires spread out rapidly by strong winds.
Joohyun Lee +4 more
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Downslope windstorms in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec during Tehuantepecer events: a numerical study with WRF high-resolution simulations [PDF]
Earth System Dynamics, 2019 Tehuantepecers or Tehuanos are extreme winds produced in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, blowing south through Chivela Pass, the mountain gap across the isthmus, from the Gulf of Mexico into the Pacific Ocean.
M. A. Prósper +4 more
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Climatology of extreme downslope windstorms in the Russian Arctic
Weather and Climate Extremes, 2020 This paper presents the climatology of downslope windstorms in the Russian Arctic – bora on Novaya Zemlya, windstorms on Spitsbergen, in Tiksi and Pevek, bora on Wrangel Island – in connection with the large-scale circulation.
Anna A. Shestakova +2 more
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Downslope windstorm in Iceland – WRF/MM5 model comparison [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2011 A severe windstorm downstream of Mt. Öræfajökull in Southeast Iceland is simulated on a grid of 1 km horizontal resolution by using the PSU/NCAR MM5 model and the Advanced Research WRF model.
Ó. Rögnvaldsson +3 more
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Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2022 In Arakawa Village, the strong Hira downslope windstorm blowing from the Hira Mountains toward Lake Biwa, poses a great challenge for timber housing structures, which are prone to deformation. To understand the countermeasures applied in local farmhouses
Jingying Wang, Chiho Ochiai
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Evaluation of Ensemble‐Based Extreme Forecast Diagnostics for Zonda Wind Prediction
Earth and Space ScienceZonda is a downslope windstorm on the eastern slopes of the Andes in western Argentina. This Foehn‐like phenomenon can produce hazardous, strong, and gusty downslope winds, leading to extreme and rapid warming with severe societal impacts.
Federico Otero, Estíbaliz Gascón
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The December 2021 Marshall Fire: Predictability and Gust Forecasts from Operational Models
Atmosphere, 2022 We analyzed meteorological conditions that occurred during the December 2021 Boulder, Colorado, downslope windstorm. This event is of particular interest due to the ignition and spread of the Marshall Fire, which quickly became the most destructive ...
Robert G. Fovell +2 more
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 This work studies the characteristics of high winds in the Tianshan Grand Canyon (TGC), Northwest China by using surface wind observations at six automatic weather stations during 2017–2018.
Tao Xi +7 more
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Atmosphere, 2021 Diverse and severe weather conditions and rapid climate change rates in the Arctic emphasize the need for high-resolution climatic and environmental data that cannot be obtained from the scarce observational networks.
Vladimir Platonov, Mikhail Varentsov
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