Interactions between Downslope Flows and a Developing 1 Cold - Air Pool
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A numerical model has been used to characterize the development of a region of 6 enhanced cooling, in an alpine valley with a width of order 10 km, under decoupled stable 7 conditions. The region of enhanced cooling develops largely as a region of relatively dry 8 air that partitions the valley atmosphere dynamics into two volumes, with air flows partially 9 trapped within the valley by a developing elevated inversion. Complex interactions between 10 the region of enhanced cooling and the downslope flows are quantified. The cooling within 11 the region of enhanced cooling and the elevated inversion is almost equally partitioned be12 tween radiative and dynamics effects. By the end of the simulation, the different valley at13 mosphere regions approach a state of thermal equilibrium with one another, though this can 14 not be said of the valley atmosphere and its external environment. 15
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