Characteristics of stable flows over Southern Greenland

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 162, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1747-1778

  Orr, Andrew ^a,f   Hanna, Edward ^b   Hunt, Julian C R ^a,f   Cappelen, John ^c   Steffen, Konrad ^d   Stephens, A G ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^f EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air sea interaction; Greenland; Synoptic flows; Wind jets

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; GREENLAND; WORLD;

EID: 23144465454     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-005-2691-x     Document Type: Article

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