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Fronts and orography

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Theoretical work on the impact of orography on cold fronts is reviewed and related to observations. This paper contains the following sections:

  1. 1.

    Introduction

  2. 2.

    Passive scalar fronts

  3. 3.

    Shallow water fronts

  4. 4.

    Fronts in deformation flows

  5. 5.

    Orographic jets

  6. 6.

    Cold-air damming

  7. 7.

    Föhn and fronts

  8. 8.

    Fronts in valleys

  9. 9.

    Cold surges

  10. 10.

    Lee cyclogenesis

  11. 11.

    Orographic rain and fronts

  12. 12.

    Pressure drag

  13. 13.

    Numerical simulations

  14. 14.

    Analysis

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    Egger, J., Hoinka, K.P. Fronts and orography. Meteorl. Atmos. Phys. 48, 3–36 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01029557

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