Transcritical flows in the coastal marine atmospheric boundary layer

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 2761-2779

  Rogerson, A M ^a,b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b Woods Hole Océanographie Institution ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COASTAL ENGINEERING; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRAULIC JUMP; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; STREAM FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; COASTLINE; EDDY GENERATION PROCESS; OROGRAPHIC BENDS; PRESSURE GRADIENTS; STEADY STATE BASE FLOW; TRANSCRITICAL BASE FLOW;

FLOW OF WATER;

BOUNDARY LAYER; COASTAL ZONE; SHALLOW WATER;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; COASTAL ZONE; SHALLOW WATER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033566485     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<2761:TFITCM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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