Air-sea interaction associated with a Greenland reverse tip jet

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 24, 2007, Pages

  Martin, Rebekah ^a   Moore, G W K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; JETS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ABYSSAL OCEANIC CIRCULATION; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; OROGRAPHY; TIP JET;

FLOW INTERACTIONS;

ABYSSAL CIRCULATION; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; JET; OROGRAPHY; STORM TRACK; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 39549110038     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031093     Document Type: Article

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