A case study on a polar cold air outbreak over fram strait using a mesoscale weather prediction model

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 301-336

  Wacker, Ulrike ^a   Jayaraman Potty, K V ^a   Lüpkes, Christof ^a   Hartmann, Jörg ^a   Raschendorfer, Matthias ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cold air outbreak; Convective boundary layer; Mesoscale modelling; Polar clouds

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; CLOUDS; GLOBAL WARMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEA ICE; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER (ABL); CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; MESOSCALE MODELLING; MESOSCALE WEATHER PREDICTION MODEL; POLAR COLD AIR OUTBREAK;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; CLOUDS; GLOBAL WARMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEA ICE; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COLD AIR; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; FORECASTING METHOD; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARCTIC; FRAM STRAIT;

EID: 31444438065     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-005-2189-1     Document Type: Article

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