Observations of the trade wind wakes of Kauai and Oahu

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Yang, Yang ^a,b   Ma, Jian ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; OCEAN CURRENTS; WAKES; WATER WAVES;

DIURNAL CYCLE; DYNAMIC WAKES; WIND SHEAR; WIND WAKES;

WIND;

CLOUD; LEE WAVE; OCEANIC CURRENT; SEA SURFACE; TRADE WIND; TURBULENT MIXING; WAKE; WIND VELOCITY;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; KAUAI; NORTH AMERICA; OAHU; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44249114120     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031742     Document Type: Article

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