Effects of coastal orography on landfalling cold fronts. part II: Effects of surface friction

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 3366-3384

  Braun, Scott A ^a   Rotunno, Richard ^b   Klemp, Joseph B ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRICTION; GRAVITY WAVES; RAIN; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND;

COLD FRONTS; LANDFALL; OROGRAPHY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

COASTAL ZONE; FRICTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

COASTAL ZONE; FRICTION; OROGRAPHY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 0033210720     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<3366:EOCOOL>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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