Mesoscale modeling of the atmosphere over Antarctic sea ice: A late-autumn case study

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1457-1474

  Valkonen, Teresa ^a   Vihma, Timo ^b   Doble, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CLIMATOLOGY; DRAG REDUCTION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; HYDRODYNAMICS; ICE; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LEAD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PRESSURE; SEA ICE; TEMPERATURE; THEOREM PROVING; TROPOSPHERE; WIND EFFECTS;

AIR TEMPERATURE (T); AIR TEMPERATURE FIELDS; AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); ANTARCTIC SEA ICE; APPLIED (CO); ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER (ABL); ATMOSPHERIC FLOWS; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL SIMULATIONS; CASE STUDIES; DATA-SETS; FOUR DIMENSIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION (FFDA); HIGHLY SENSITIVE; ICE FIELDS; INTERACTION STUDY; LOWER BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MESOSCALE MODEL (MM5); MODEL RESULTS; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH (NCAR); OPEN WATER; PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY (PSU); SEA ICE CONCENTRATION (SIC); SEA ICE MODELS; WEDDELL SEA; WIND FIELDS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIRFLOW; ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; AUTUMN; BOUNDARY LAYER; COLD AIR; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; ICE COVER; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE;

SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 45749131115     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2242.1     Document Type: Article

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