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Mountain Waves Launched By Convective Activity Within The Boundary Layer Above Mountains

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Mountain waves are observed in the free atmosphere, even when the mountainboundary layer (the source region of these waves) is neutral or convectivelyunstable, and filled with convective rolls, revealed by cloud streets. This paperinvestigates if mountain waves are caused not simply by air flow over mountainridges, but also by flow over boundary-layer convective activity, similar toconvection waves above plains and oceans. Disturbance of stable air flow abovemountains by convective activity, mechanical and convective turbulence and rotors,near the ground, could move the effective mountain-wave launching height to higherthan the mountain peaks.

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Worthington, R.M. Mountain Waves Launched By Convective Activity Within The Boundary Layer Above Mountains. Boundary-Layer Meteorology 103, 469–491 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014965029602

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