A climatological study of the influence of synoptic-scale flows on sea breeze evolution in the Bay of Alicante (Spain)

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 96, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 249-260

  Azorin Molina, C ^a,b   Chen, D ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA BREEZE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

ALICANTE BAY; ALICANTE [COMUNIDAD VALENCIA]; COMUNIDAD VALENCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 67349119222     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-008-0028-2     Document Type: Article

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