The influence of the geostrophic wind advection approximation on a well-mixed layer

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 31-52

  Fang, Juan ^a   Wu, Rongsheng ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Boundary layer model; Boundary layer pumping; Ekman theory; Geostrophic momentum approximation; Geostrophic wind advection approximation; Inertial acceleration

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION MEASUREMENT; APPROXIMATION THEORY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW;

FLOW ACCELERATION; GEOSTROPHIC MOMENTUM (GM); NONLINEARITY; WIND ADVECTION;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

ADVECTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; MOMENTUM;

ADVECTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; EKMAN LAYER; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; MOMENTUM;

EID: 10144263327     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-004-8660-6     Document Type: Article

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