The Greenland flow distortion experiment

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1307-1324

  Renfrew, I A ^a   Moore, G W K ^b   Kristjansson J E ^c   Olafsson H ^d,e   Gray, S L ^f   Petersen, G N ^a   Bovis, K ^g   Brown, P R A ^g   Fore I ^c   Haine, T ^h   Hay, C ^b   Irvine, E A ^e   Lawrence, A ⁱ   Ohigashi, T ^b   Outten, S ^a   Pickart, R S ^j   Shapiro, M ^k   Sproson, D ^a   Swinbank, R ^g   Woolley, A ^l   Zhang, S ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^g MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^h JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^j WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^k NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^l Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurement   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; MOISTURE CONTROL; STORMS;

AIR-SEA FLUXES; AIRBORNE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENTS; CLIMATE SYSTEMS; COASTAL SEAS; CYCLOGENESIS; DOWNSTREAM; EUROPEAN; FIELD CAMPAIGNS; FLOW DISTORTIONS; GREENLAND; HIGH WINDS; ICELAND; MESOSCALE CYCLONES; MESOSCALE WEATHER SYSTEMS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NUMERICAL MODELING; SOUTHEAST GREENLAND; TARGETED OBSERVATIONS; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS; TIP JETTED; WEATHER SYSTEMS;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 54249100048     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008BAMS2508.1     Document Type: Review

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