Surface winds in the Euro-Mediterranean area: The real resolution of numerical grids

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 4043-4048

  Cheruy F ^a   Speranza, Antonio ^b   Sutera, A ^c   Tartaglione, N ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics (Mesoscale meteorology; Ocean atmosphere interaction; Climatology)

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SURFACE WIND; WIND FORCING; WIND-WAVE INTERACTION;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 13244279800     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-22-4043-2004     Document Type: Article

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