Gravity-wave drag produced by Madeira

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 125, Issue 556, 1999, Pages 1341-1357

  Miranda, Pedro M A ^a   Ferreira, João Jacinto ^b   Thorpe, Alan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Gravity wave drag; Linear modelling; Microbarograph observations

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; DRAG; GRAVITY WAVE; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT;

MADEIRA;

EID: 0032790498     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1999.49712555612     Document Type: Article

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