A comparison of two coastal barrier jet events along the Southeast Alaskan coast during the SARJET field experiment

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2973-2994

  Olson, Joseph B ^a   Colle, Brian A ^a   Bond, Nicholas A ^b   Winstead, Nathaniel ^c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; JETS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; WIND EFFECTS;

COASTAL BARRIER JET; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GAP FLOW; ONSHORE FLOW;

METEOROLOGY;

ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; JET FLOW; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; OUTFLOW; SURFACE PRESSURE; WIND;

ALASKA; JUNEAU; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548280924     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3448.1     Document Type: Article

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