Mesoscale cyclone activity near Terra Nova Bay and Byrd Glacier, Antarctica during 1991

Global Atmosphere and Ocean System

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 43-72

  Carrasco, Jorge F ^a,b   Bromwich, David H ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Direccion Meteorologica de Chile   (Chile)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Interannual variability; Katabatic winds; Mesoscale cyclogenesis

Indexed keywords

CYCLOGENESIS; KATABATIC FLOW; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; POLAR METEOROLOGY;

ANTARCTICA; ROSS SEA;

EID: 0030561894     PISSN: 10236732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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