A case study of an on-ice air flow over the Arctic marginal sea-ice zone

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 189-217

  Vihma, Timo ^a   Hartman, Jörg ^b   Lüpkes, Christof ^b  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Finland)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arctic marginal sea ice zone; Mesoscale modelling; On ice air flow; Roughness lengths; Stable boundary layer; Turbulent and radiative fluxes

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DRAG; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYERS (ABL);

METEOROLOGY;

AIRFLOW; BOUNDARY LAYER; HEAT FLUX; INVERSION LAYER; SEA ICE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ARCTIC;

EID: 0037397089     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021599601948     Document Type: Article

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