Flow in the lee of idealized mountains and Greenland

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 2183-2195

  Petersen, Gudún Nína ^a,b   Ólafsson, Haraldur ^b   Kristjánsson, Jón Egill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; STORMS; WAKES; WIND;

UPSTREAM BLOCKING;

ATMOSPHERICS;

MOUNTAIN REGION; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; POTENTIAL VORTICITY;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0141650587     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2003)060<2183:FITLOI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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