Numerical simulations of sea-breeze circulations over northwest Hawaii

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 827-846

  Zhang, Yongxin ^a   Chen, Yi Leng ^a   Schroeder, Thomas A ^a   Kodama, Kevin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Weather Forecast Office   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; VOLCANIC ROCKS; WIND;

RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION; SEA BREEZE CIRCULATION; SEA BREEZES;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIRFLOW; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; SEA BREEZE; WIND VELOCITY;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 31344453415     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF859.1     Document Type: Article

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