Radar-duct and boundary-layer characteristics over the area of The Gulf

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 609, 2005, Pages 1923-1953

  Atkinson, B W ^a   Zhu, M ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case study; Numerical model; Radar propagation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WIND EFFECTS;

CASE STUDY; RADAR PROPAGATION; RADAR-DUCT CHARACTERISTICS;

METEOROLOGY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; RADAR; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; QATAR; WORLD;

EID: 27644544937     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.113     Document Type: Article

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