An analytical study of the diurnal variations of wind in a semi-geostrophic Ekman boundary layer model

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 313-332

  Tan, Zhe Min ^a   Farahani, Majid M ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Diurnal wind variation; Inertial oscillation; Semi geostophic Ekman model

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; DIURNAL VARIATION; EKMAN MODEL; FLOW; LOW LEVEL JET; WIND;

EID: 0031926299     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1000694732459     Document Type: Article

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