Model wind over the central and southern California coastal ocean

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1931-1944

  Hsu, Hsiao Ming ^a   Oey, Lie Yauw ^b   Johnson, Walter ^c   Dorman, Clive ^d   Hodur, Richard ^e  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; WIND; WIND STRESS;

BOUNDARY LAYER PHYSICS; COASTAL OCEAN MODELING;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COASTAL ZONE; EDDY; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND STRESS; WIND VELOCITY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34249664885     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3389.1     Document Type: Article

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