Zonal surface wind jets across the Red Sea due to mountain gap forcing along both sides of the Red Sea

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 19, 2009, Pages

  Jiang, Houshuo ^a   Farrar, J Thomas ^a   Beardsley, Robert C ^a   Chen, Ru ^a   Chen, Changsheng ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BUOY DATA; DEEP CONVECTION; GAP WINDS; IN-SITU; LONGITUDINAL AXIS; MESOSCALE; OCEAN EDDIES; OCEAN HEAT; RED SEA; RED SEA COAST; SURFACE WIND STRESS; WIND SPEED; ZONAL SURFACE WINDS;

JETS; LANDFORMS; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

WIND STRESS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; HEAT FLUX; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MODEL VALIDATION; OCEANIC CONVECTION; SURFACE WIND; WIND VELOCITY; ZONAL WIND;

AFRICA; ASIA; EAST AFRICA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; RED SEA [SUDAN]; SAUDI ARABIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; SUDAN;

EID: 72049083205     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040008     Document Type: Article

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