Numerical investigation of the Somali jet interaction with the Western Ghat Mountains

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 365-396

  Wu, Yihua ^a   Raman, Sethu ^a   Mohanty, U C ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Institute of Information Technology   (India)

Author keywords

Numerical investigation; Somali jet; The Western Ghat

Indexed keywords

JET; OROGRAPHY;

INDIA;

EID: 0032803933     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000240050234     Document Type: Article

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