The dynamics of Northwest summer winds over the Santa Barbara Channel

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1042-1061

  Skyllingstad, E D ^a   Barbour, P ^a   Dorman, C E ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; THERMAL EFFECTS;

MODEL DOMAIN;

WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SUMMER; WIND FIELD;

CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035333953     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2001)129<1042:TDONSW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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