Diagnosis of the katabatic wind influence on the wintertime Antarctic surface wind field from numerical simulations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1128-1139

  Parish, Thomas R ^a   Cassano, John J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ICE;

KATABATIC WINDS;

WIND;

KATABATIC FLOW; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; SURFACE WIND; WIND DIRECTION; WIND FIELD;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0037494726     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<1128:DOTKWI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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