Open-ocean convection in the Greenland Sea: Preconditioning through a mesoscale chimney and detectability in SAR imagery studied with a hierarchy of nested numerical models

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 693-702

  Androsov, Alexey ^a   Rubino, Angelo ^a,b   Romeiser, Roland ^a   Sein, Dmitry V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIMNEYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT LOSSES; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; SEA ICE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CONVECTION; OPEN OCEAN; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 33646028495     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2005/0078     Document Type: Article

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