Development of a new wind-rose for the British Isles using radiosonde data, and application to an atmospheric transport model

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 132, Issue 621, 2006, Pages 2769-2784

  Dore, A J ^a   Vieno, M ^b   Fournier, N ^c   Weston, K J ^b   Sutton, M A ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acidification; FRAME; Wind frequency rose; Wind speed rose

Indexed keywords

RADIOSONDES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WIND EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT MODEL; JENKINSON CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; WIND FREQUENCY ROSE; WIND SPEED ROSE;

WIND;

ACIDIFICATION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; RADIOSONDE; SIMULATION; WIND VELOCITY; WINTER;

ROSA;

EID: 33846889561     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.05.198     Document Type: Article

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