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Wind flow over low arbitrary hills

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A simplified model is given which computes the wind distribution over an arbitrary mountain range for a given upwind boundary-layer profile. The method has been adopted for the HP-41C calculator and results include the distribution of the amplification factor along the wind direction for various topographies.

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  1. Technical University of Norway, Trondheim, Norway

    H. Nørstrud

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Nørstrud, H. Wind flow over low arbitrary hills. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 23, 115–124 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00116115

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