Dynamics of the elevated land plume over the Arabian Sea and the northern Indian Ocean during northeasterly monsoons and during the Indian Ocean experiment (INDOEX)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 64-1-64-4

  Raman, Sethu ^a   Niyogi, Dev dutta S ^a   Simpson, Matthew ^a   Pelon, Jacques ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Air Sea Interactions; Boundary layer processes; Indian Ocean; Land Atmosphere Interactions; Marine Meteorology

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COHERENT LIGHT; DATA ACQUISITION; OPTICAL RADAR; THERMAL PLUMES; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE;

LAND PLUMES;

OCEAN STRUCTURES;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; PLUME;

(NORTH); ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0242515967     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL014193     Document Type: Article

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