Sea-breeze scaling from numerical model simulations, Part I: Pure sea breezes

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-29

  Porson, Aurore ^a,c   Steyn, Douw G ^b   Schayes, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Numerical model; Scaling law; Sea breeze; Stability; Surface heat flux; Volume flux scaling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; WIND;

SCALING LAW; SEA-BREEZE SCALING; SURFACE HEAT FLUX; VOLUME FLUX SCALING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; WIND;

ADVECTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE; HEAT FLUX; SEA BREEZE; SURFACE FLUX; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 33846168057     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-006-9090-4     Document Type: Article

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