Shallow mesoscale flows at the north-eastern Adriatic coast

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 132, Issue 620, 2006, Pages 2191-2215

  Prtenjak, Maja Telišman ^a   Grisogono, Branko ^b   Nitis, Theodoros ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Mesoscale eddies; Sea breeze front; Sea land breeze

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; STORMS;

LAND-BREEZE; MESOSCALE EDDIES; SEA-BREEZE;

METEOROLOGY;

CLIMATE VARIATION; CONVERGENCE; DIURNAL ACTIVITY; JET FLOW; MESOSCALE EDDY; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SEA BREEZE;

EID: 33751534265     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.05.41     Document Type: Article

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