The thermal wake of Kauai Island: Satellite observations and numerical simulations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 4568-4586

  Yang, Yang ^a,b   Xie, Shang Ping ^a   Hafner, Jan ^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

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLOUDS; COMMERCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; RIVERS; SATELLITES; SUN; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); TURBULENT FLOW;

AIR PRESSURES; AIR TEMPERATURES; ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; CLOUD BANDS; CLOUD FORMATIONS; CONVERGENCE ZONES; DIURNAL CYCLES; ISLAND WAKES; NORTH PACIFIC; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; STRONG WINDS; TRADE WINDS; WAKE EFFECTS; WARM ADVECTIONS; WARM AIRS;

WAKES;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUD; CLOUD COVER; DIURNAL VARIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRADE WIND; WAKE;

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

EID: 56349105141     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI1895.1     Document Type: Article

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