Response of the summer marine layer flow to an extreme California coastal bend

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2894-2922

  Dorman, Clive E ^a,b   Koračin, Darko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COASTAL ZONES; CODES (SYMBOLS); ELASTIC MODULI; FLUID MECHANICS; FORESTRY; HURRICANE EFFECTS; HYDRAULICS; LANDFORMS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; SPEED; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE STRUCTURE; THEOREM PROVING; WIND; WIND POWER;

CALIFORNIA; CAPPING INVERSION; DIFFERENTIAL HEATING; DIURNAL VARIATIONS; DOWNSLOPE FLOWS; HIGH SPEEDS; HYDRAULIC DYNAMICS; HYDRAULIC FLOW; LAYER FLOW; LOS ANGELES; MAXIMUM WIND SPEED; MESOSCALE MODEL; OPEN OCEAN; PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURES; SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL; SEA SURFACE WIND; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SYNOPTIC CONDITIONS; WEST COAST; WIND CONDITIONS; WIND SPEED; WIND SPEEDS; WIND STRUCTURE;

WIND EFFECTS;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DIURNAL VARIATION; HYDRAULICS; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WIND VELOCITY;

CALIFORNIA; COAST RANGES; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; POINT CONCEPTION; SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL; SANTA YNEZ MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 53249094064     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2336.1     Document Type: Article

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