Tip jets and barrier winds: A QuikSCAT climatology of high wind speed events around Greenland

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 3713-3725

  Moore, G W K ^a   Renfrew, I A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; STORMS; WEATHER SATELLITES; WIND EFFECTS;

HIGH SPEED WIND EVENTS; SURFACE WIND FIELD; WINTERTIME CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; SURFACE WIND; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WIND VELOCITY;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; GREENLAND; WORLD;

EID: 27344438123     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3455.1     Document Type: Article

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