High-resolution observations and numerical simulations of easterly gap flow through the Strait of Juan de Fuca on 9-10 December 1995

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 7 II, 2000, Pages 2398-2422

  Colle, Brian A ^a   Mass, Clifford F ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FLOW; PRESSURE GRADIENT; STRAIT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

AGEOSTROPHIC FLOW; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NOAA SATELLITE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

JUAN DE FUCA STRAIT;

EID: 0033831779     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<2398:hroans>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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