A COAMPS™ reanalysis for the Eastern Pacific: Properties of the diurnal sea breeze along the central California coast

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 2002, Pages

  Kindle, John C ^a   Hodur, Richard M ^a   Derada, Sergio ^b   Paduan, Jeffrey D ^c   Rosenfeld, Leslie K ^c   Chavez, Francisco Q ^d  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STENNIS SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^d MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; COUPLED OCEAN/ATMOSPHERE MESOSCALE PREDICTION SYSTEM; DIURNAL CYCLE; EASTERN PACIFIC; HIGH RESOLUTION; MODEL OUTPUTS; MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTES; WIND MEASUREMENT;

EARTH SCIENCES;

EID: 0038066411     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015566     Document Type: Article

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