Direct influence of gravity waves on surface-layer stress during a cold air outbreak, as shown by synthetic aperture radar

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 130, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2764-2776

  Winstead, Nathaniel S ^a   Sikora, Todd D ^a   Thompson, Donald R ^a   Mourad, Pierre D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BOUNDARY LAYERS; GRAVITY WAVES; LAKES; RADIATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND STRESS;

CAPILLARY WAVES;

RADAR IMAGING;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTION; GRAVITY WAVE; LAKE; SURFACE LAYER; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND STRESS;

GREAT LAKES (LAKE SUPERIOR); UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036852620     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2002)130<2764:DIOGWO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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