Roll vortices and boundary-layer development during a cold air outbreak

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 45-65

  Hartmann, Jörg ^a   Kottmeier, Christoph ^a,b   Raasch, Siegfried ^c  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boundary Layer development; Cold air outbreak; Vortex rolls

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTION; VORTEX;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTION; VORTEX;

ARCTIC OCEAN, FRAM STRAIT;

EID: 0031391194     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1000392931768     Document Type: Article

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