Numerical studies with a regional atmospheric climate model based on changes in the roughness length for momentum and heat over Antarctica

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 313-337

  Reijmer, C H ^a   Van Meijgaard, E ^b   Van Den Broeke, M R ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Momentum roughness; Numerical experiment; Regional atmospheric climate model; Scalar roughness length; Turbulent fluxes

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VEGETATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

LARGE SCALE FLOWS; LOWER ATMOSPHERE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

HEAT TRANSFER; MODELING; MOMENTUM; ROUGHNESS;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MODELING; MOMENTUM; ROUGHNESS;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 1842535190     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BOUN.0000016470.23403.ca     Document Type: Article

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