Linear breeze scaling: From large-scale land/sea breezes to mesoscale inland breezes

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 644, 2009, Pages 1766-1775

  Drobinski, Philippe ^a   Dubos, Thomas ^a  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Breeze circulation; Linear model; Scaling laws

Indexed keywords

BREEZE CIRCULATION; BREEZE REGIMES; CELL SHAPES; CORIOLIS EFFECT; INNER LAYER; INNER REGION; LINEAR MODEL; MESOSCALE; NON-TRIVIAL; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; SEA-BREEZE; WARM SURFACE;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FRICTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SCALING LAWS; TRIBOLOGY;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; CORIOLIS FORCE; FRICTION; LAND BREEZE; MESOSCALE MOTION; SEA BREEZE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 70350655414     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.496     Document Type: Article

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