Case study of a coastal jet at Spitsbergen - Comparison of SAR- and model-estimated wind

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1040-1051

  Sandvik, Anne Dagrun ^a   Furevik, Birgitte Rugaard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; JETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR; SHIPS;

UPSTREAM VELOCITY;

WIND;

COASTAL ZONE; JET FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHIPBORNE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

HINLOPENSTRETET; NORWAY; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 0036537986     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2002)130<1040:CSOACJ>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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