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The role of orography on the atmospheric general circulation has been a scientific problem of considerable interest to meteorologists during the past few decades. Different facets of this issue have been examined by numerous investigators using model tools of varying degree of complexity. Among the most sophisticated models used for this purpose is the fully nonlinear general circulation models (GCMs) incorporating a wide array of dynamical and physical processes. To date, the most detailed analyses of orographic influences on the circulation features appearing in a grid-point GCM are probably those reported by Manabe and Terpstra (1974) and Kasahara et al. (1973), who examined simulations of relatively limited durations (say, one or two seasons). The rationale for reexamining this problem in the present study is three-fold:
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Lau, NC. (1986). The Influences of Orography on Large-scale Atmospheric Flow Simulated by a General Circulation Model. 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_17
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