A numerical study of the thermally driven plain-to-basin wind over idealized basin topographies

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 606-622

  De Wekker, Stephan F J ^a,b   Zhong, Shiyuan ^a   Fast, Jerome D ^a   Whiteman, C David ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN; DIURNAL VARIATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0032418425     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1998)037<0606:ANSOTT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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