Convection‐permitting models: a step‐change in rainfall forecasting

P Clark, N Roberts, H Lean, SP Ballard… - Meteorological …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Convection‐permitting models (CPMs) have provided weather forecasting centres with a
step‐change in capabilities for forecasting rainfall. They are now used operationally to …

Diurnal mountain wind systems

D Zardi, CD Whiteman - … research and forecasting: Recent progress and …, 2012 - Springer
Diurnal mountain wind systems are local thermally driven wind systems that form over
mountainous terrain and are produced by the buoyancy effects associated with the diurnal …

A soil freezing-thawing model based on thermodynamics

X Li, X Li - Cold Regions Science and Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
The freezing-thawing behavior of soil plays a crucial role in frozen soil engineering. In this
study, a soil freezing-thawing model is proposed from the perspective of statistical …

On downward shortwave and longwave radiations over high altitude regions: Observation and modeling in the Tibetan Plateau

K Yang, J He, W Tang, J Qin, CCK Cheng - Agricultural and Forest …, 2010 - Elsevier
The downward solar or shortwave radiation (SWD) and atmospheric longwave radiation
(LWD) play essential roles in controlling alpine environment and ecosystem. Meanwhile …

[图书][B] The biology of alpine habitats

L Nagy, G Grabherr - 2009 - books.google.com
This book is unique in providing a global overview of alpine (high mountain) habitats that
occur above the natural (cold-limited) tree line, describing the factors that have shaped them …

Proposal of a regressive model for the hourly diffuse solar radiation under all sky conditions

JA Ruiz-Arias, H Alsamamra, J Tovar-Pescador… - Energy Conversion and …, 2010 - Elsevier
In this work, we propose a new regressive model for the estimation of the hourly diffuse solar
irradiation under all sky conditions. This new model is based on the sigmoid function and …

Debris-covered glacier anomaly? Morphological factors controlling changes in the mass balance, surface area, terminus position, and snow line altitude of Himalayan …

F Salerno, S Thakuri, G Tartari, T Nuimura… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
What are the main morphological factors that control the heterogeneous responses of debris-
covered glaciers to climate change in the southern central Himalaya? A debate is open …

Sensitivity of potential evapotranspiration to meteorological factors and their elevational gradients in the Qilian Mountains, northwestern China

Y Yang, R Chen, Y Song, C Han, J Liu, Z Liu - Journal of Hydrology, 2019 - Elsevier
Mountainous regions are important sources of freshwater. Measurement of actual
evapotranspiration (ET) is difficult to obtain in high mountain regions because of the harsh …

A comparative analysis of DEM‐based models to estimate the solar radiation in mountainous terrain

JA Ruiz‐Arias, J Tovar‐Pescador… - International Journal …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Daily solar radiation estimates of four up‐to‐date solar radiation models (Solar Analyst, r.
sun, SRAD and Solei‐32), based on a digital elevation model (DEM), have been evaluated …

TopoSCALE v. 1.0: downscaling gridded climate data in complex terrain

J Fiddes, S Gruber - Geoscientific Model Development, 2014 - gmd.copernicus.org
Simulation of land surface processes is problematic in heterogeneous terrain due to the the
high resolution required of model grids to capture strong lateral variability caused by, for …