The diurnal variation of the marine surface wind in an offshore flow

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 610 B, 2005, Pages 2367-2387

  Lapworth, Alan ^a,b  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b Meteorological Research Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Marine boundary layer; Stable boundary layer

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SPEED; WIND;

MARINE BOUNDARY LAYER; STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER; WIND SPEED;

METEOROLOGY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DIURNAL VARIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 27144438640     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.161     Document Type: Article

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