Wind forecasting for the sailing events at the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic games

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 181-199

  Spark, Elly ^a   Connor, Gregory J ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METEOROLOGY; NATURAL WATER GEOCHEMISTRY; OFFSHORE STRUCTURES;

BREEZE; OFFSHORE AREA; SURFACE WINDS; WEATHER SERVICES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

FORECASTING METHOD; SEA BREEZE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; SYDNEY HARBOUR;

EID: 1842689671     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2004)019<0181:WFFTSE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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