A numerical study on the interaction of a sea-breeze front with convective cells in the daytime boundary layer

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 635-651

  Ogawa, Satoshi ^a   Sha, Weiming ^a   Iwasaki, Toshiki ^a   Wang, Zifa ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA BREEZE; TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0344898279     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.81.635     Document Type: Article

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