Observations and modeling of the sea breeze with the return current

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 625-640

  Tijm, A B C ^a,b   Holtslag, A A M ^a,b   Van Delden, A J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA BREEZE; WIND MEASUREMENT; WIND PROFILE;

NORTH SEA;

EID: 0032746888     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<0625:OAMOTS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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