Topographically generated gravity waves in the Brooks Range, Alaska

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 2981-2984

  Lynch, Amanda H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRAULIC MODELS; WIND; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AIR FLOW; CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; NORTH SLOPE OF ALASKA; SOURCE REGION; WIND EVENTS; WIND SPEED;

CLIMATE MODELS; WIND;

NONLINEAR HYDRAULIC GRAVITY WAVE MODELS;

EID: 0031331490     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03017     Document Type: Article

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