Metcrax 2006

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 89, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1665-1680

  Whiteman, C David ^a   Muschinski, Andreas ^b   Zhong, Sharon ^c   Fritts, David ^d   Hoch, Sebastian W ^a   Hahnenberger, Maura ^a   Yao, Wenqing ^c   Hohreiter, Vincent ^b   Behn, Mario ^b   Cheon, Yonghun ^b   Clements, Craig B ^e   Horst, Thomas W ^f   Brown, William O J ^f   Oncley, Steven P ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Division of North West Research Associates ^*  (United States)

^e SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; METEOR IMPACTS; WATER WAVES;

ANALYSIS RESULTS; ARIZONA; COLORADO PLATEAUX; DRAINAGE FLOWS; INTERNAL WAVES; MESO SCALE STRUCTURES; MESO-SCALE; METEOR CRATERS; MICRO-SCALE; NIGHT-TIME COOLING; NIGHTTIME TEMPERATURES; SLOPE FLOWS; SPATIAL DIFFERENCES; STABLE BOUNDARY LAYERS; STANDING WAVES; SURFACE RADIATION BUDGETS; SURFACE-BASED INVERSIONS; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGIES;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 60849099925     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008BAMS2574.1     Document Type: Review

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