Rotation of sea/land breezes along the northeastern Adriatic coast

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1711-1724

  Prtenjak, M T ^a   Pasari, Z ^a   Orli, M ^a   Grisogono, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; DIURNAL VARIATION; LAND BREEZE; SEA BREEZE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 46149091339     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-26-1711-2008     Document Type: Article

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