Abstract
Mountains and hills are a source of enormous variability in atmospheric flow at a multitude of scales. Variations in direction and speed of the flow, both in time and space, are associated with variations in all parameters that are generally associated with weather forecasting, including wind, temperature, cloudiness and precipitation. In the vicinity of mountains, climate, weather and in particular weather extremes may be highly influenced by the topography. In this chapter, a comprehensive, but short review of the impact of mountains on the atmospheric flow will be given and aspects of forecasting the different orographic wind patterns will be discussed.
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