Objective synoptic classification combined with high resolution meteorological models for wind mesoscale studies

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 91, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 165-181

  Soriano, Cecilia ^a   Fernandez A ^b   Martin Vide, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b Centro Meteorológico de Cienfuegos   (Cuba)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 31044453710     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-005-0133-z     Document Type: Article

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