Climatological circulation in Lake Michigan

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 21, 2008, Pages

  Beletsky, Dmitry ^a   Schwab, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID DYNAMICS;

CLIMATOLOGICAL CIRCULATIONS; CONTINUOUS MODELING; CYCLONIC CIRCULATIONS; FORCING FUNCTIONS; LAKE MICHIGAN; MEAN CURRENTS; METEOROLOGICAL DATUM; MODEL RESULTS;

LAKES;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATOLOGY; CURRENT; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAKE; MAP; MODELING;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 58849125282     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035773     Document Type: Article

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