Wind turning across the marine atmospheric boundary layer

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 607, 2005, Pages 1233-1250

  Brown, Andy R ^a,b   Beljaars, A C M ^a   Hersbach, H ^a   Hollingsworth, A ^a   Miller, M ^a   Vasiljevic, D ^a  

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

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Backing; Parametrization; Veering

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOSONDES; SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BACKING; MARINE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; PARAMETRIZATION; SCATTEROMETER; VEERING; WARM ADVECTION; WIND TURNING;

WIND;

BOUNDARY LAYER; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 27644528883     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.163     Document Type: Article

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