Southwesterly flows over southern Norway - Mesoscale sensitivity to large-scale wind direction and speed

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 136-152

  Barstad, Idar ^a   Grønås, Sigbjørn ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELING; LEE WAVE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WIND FIELD; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 14944372075     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0870.2005.00112.x     Document Type: Article

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