Bora-driven potential vorticity banners over the Adriatic

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 130, Issue 602 PART A, 2004, Pages 2571-2603

  Grubišić, Vanda ^a  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; COAMPS; Mesoscale Alpine Programme; Shear lines; Wake

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AIRCRAFT; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY WAVES; OPTICAL RADAR;

MESOSCALE ALPINE PROGRAMME (MAP); POTENTIAL VORTICITY (PV);

METEOROLOGY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; MOUNTAIN REGION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WAKE;

ADRIATIC COAST [CROATIA]; CROATIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 2142706949     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.03.71     Document Type: Article

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