A simulation study of mesoscale coastal circulations in Mississippi Gulf coast

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 9-25

  Challa, Venkata Srinivas ^a   Indracanti, Jayakumar ^a   Rabarison, Monika K ^a   Patrick, Chuck ^a   Baham, Julius M ^a   Young, John ^a   Hughes, Robert ^a   Hardy, Mark G ^a   Swanier, Shelton J ^a   Yerramilli, Anjaneyulu ^a  

^a JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Internal Boundary layer; Mesoscale circulation; Sea breeze; WRF model

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; COASTAL ZONES; DRAG REDUCTION; FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW SIMULATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; LANDFORMS; METEOROLOGY; WIND;

BREEZE CIRCULATIONS; COASTAL CIRCULATIONS; COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS; FIRST ORDERS; GULF COASTS; INTERNAL BOUNDARY LAYER; INTERNAL BOUNDARY LAYERS; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE CIRCULATION; MESOSCALE CIRCULATIONS; MISSISSIPPI; MIXING LAYERS; MODEL PHYSICS; NESTED GRIDS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; OFFSHORE WINDS; ONSHORE WINDS; OVERALL PERFORMANCES; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; SCALE MODELS; SEA BREEZE; SEA BREEZES; SENSITIVITY EXPERIMENTS; SIMULATION STUDIES; SYNOPTIC FORCING; UPPER AIRS; WRF MODEL; YONSEI UNIVERSITIES;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; COASTAL CIRCULATION; COASTAL ZONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MESOSCALE MOTION; SEA BREEZE; SUMMER;

MISSISSIPPI; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 56949083629     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2008.05.004     Document Type: Article

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