A climatological study of sea breeze clouds in the Southeast of the Iberian Peninsula (Alicante, Spain)

Atmosfera

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 33-49

  Azorin Molina, C ^a,b   Sanchez Lorenzo, A ^b   Calbo, J ^c  

^a FUNDACIÓN CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AMBIENTALES DEL MEDITERRÁNEO CEAM   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cloud genera; Convective internal boundary layer; Sea breeze convergence zone; Sea breezes; Southeast Iberian Peninsula; Total cloud cover

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CUMULONIMBUS; SEA BREEZE;

ALICANTE [COMUNIDAD VALENCIA]; COMUNIDAD VALENCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 60149095701     PISSN: 01876236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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