Pressure gradients and winds in cook strait

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 476-488

  Reid, S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRESSURE GRADIENT; STRAITS; WIND DIRECTION;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRESSURE GRADIENTS; STRAIT; STRAITS; WIND DIRECTION;

NEW ZEALAND, COOK STRAIT;

EID: 0030422975     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1996)011<0476:PGAWIC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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