Abstract
Large plateaus and mountain ranges not only exercise a barrier effect on atmospheric flow processes, but constitute elevated heat or cold sources which generate baroclinicity that results in a variety of circulation systems. Depending on the space and time scales over which these baroclinic processes are effective we can distinguish a hierarchy of evolving circulation systems. These systems interact with each other, sometimes in a way which makes it difficult to assess from diagnostic studies the separate impacts of any one scale.
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Reiter, E.R., Tang, M., Shen, R. (1986). The Hierarchy of Motion Systems over Large Plateaus. In: Xu, Y. (eds) Proceedings of International Symposium on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau and Mountain Meteorology. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-935704-19-5_21
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