Atmospheric response to local upwelling in the vicinity of New York-New Jersey Harbor

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1031-1052

  Pullen, Julie ^a   Holt, Teddy ^a   Blumberg, Alan F ^b   Bornstein, Robert D ^c  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETIC ENERGY; WIND;

INTERNAL BOUNDARY LAYER (IBL); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES (SSTS); TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; KINETIC ENERGY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NEW JERSEY; NEW YORK BIGHT; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34249700598     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAM2511.1     Document Type: Article

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