MOUNTAIN METEOROLOGY | Lee Vortices Chapter uri icon

abstract

  • 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Lee Vortices refer to the flow of the atmosphere around mountain barriers resulting in a pair of counterrotating eddies downstream. This article discusses the some of the key topographic flow types revealed by laboratory experiments, numerical modeling, and theory.

author list (cited authors)

  • Epifanio, C. C.

citation count

  • 1

editor list (cited editors)

  • Pyle, J., & Zhang, F.

Book Title

  • Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences

publication date

  • January 2015