A Flash-Flooding Storm At The Steep Edge Of High Terrain: Disaster in the Himalayas

Rasmussen, K.L.R., and R. Houze (2012), A Flash-Flooding Storm At The Steep Edge Of High Terrain: Disaster in the Himalayas, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 93, 1713-1724, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00236.1.
Abstract

A lethal flash flood inundated a town when moist airflow from the lowlands invigorated a mesoscale storm moving off the Tibetan Plateau.

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