The effects of basic flow and topography on the development of the sea breeze over a complex coastal environment

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 605, 2005, Pages 305-327

  Nitis, Theodoros ^a,b   Kitsiou, Dimitra ^b   Klaić, Zvjezdana Bencetic ^c   Prtenjak, Maja Telišman ^c   Moussiopoulos, Nicolas ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Complex topography; Geographical information systems; Greater Rijeka area; MEMO; Mesoscale modelling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; WIND;

BREEZE; ISLANDS; PARAMETRIZATION; WIND FLOW;

COASTAL ZONES;

AIRFLOW; COASTAL ZONE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SEA BREEZE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

CROATIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; RIJEKA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 23044498722     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.42     Document Type: Article

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