An observational and modeling study of an atmospheric internal bore during NAME 2004

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4150-4167

  Martin, Elinor R ^a   Johnson, Richard H ^a  

^a Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and School of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; GRAVITATION; MOISTURE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; THEOREM PROVING; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

AND MODELING; BORE DEPTHS; BREEZE CIRCULATIONS; DATA SIMULATIONS; FORMATION MECHANISMS; GRAVITY CURRENTS; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; INTERNAL BORES; LEADING EDGES; ME-XICO; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; MODEL RESULTS; MOISTURE TRANSPORTS; NORTH AMERICAN MONSOON EXPERIMENTS; RELIABLE ESTIMATES; STABLE LAYERS; SURFACE OBSERVATIONS; TRAPPING MECHANISMS; TURBULENT MIXING; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; WAVE ENERGIES; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WIND PROFILER DATUMS;

WIND POWER;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; FORECASTING METHOD; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MONSOON; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA BREEZE; SIMULATION; TURBULENT MIXING; WAVE ENERGY;

GULF OF CALIFORNIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SIERRA MADRE; SIERRA MADRE ORIENTAL;

EID: 57149143224     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2486.1     Document Type: Article

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