Climatology of barrier jets along the Alaskan Coast. Part I: Spatial and temporal distributions

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 437-453

  Loescher, Kenneth A ^a   Young, George S ^a   Colle, Brian A ^b   Winstead, Nathaniel S ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; JETS; SEA LEVEL; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND;

ALASKA; COASTAL BARRIER JETS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; PRESSURE GRADIENT FORCE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATOLOGY; JET STREAM; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33645323763     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3037.1     Document Type: Article

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