An overview of barrier winds off southeastern Greenland during the Greenland Flow Distortion experiment

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 645, 2009, Pages 1950-1967

  Petersen, G N ^a   Renfrewa, I A ^a   Moore, G W K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Barrier flow; Faam; Greenland flow distortion experiment; Metum; Observations; Orographic flow

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; BARRIER JETS; DENMARK STRAIT; FAAM; FLOW DISTORTION; GREENLAND; ICELAND REGION; MAXIMUM WIND SPEED; MOUNTAIN HEIGHT; NON-STATIONARITIES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OROGRAPHIC FLOW; PEAK WIND SPEED; SYNOPTIC-SCALE SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS; TIME PERIODS; WIND COMPONENTS;

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; JETS; LANDFORMS; STORMS;

EXPERIMENTS;

AGEOSTROPHIC FLOW; AIR MASS; AIR TEMPERATURE; AIRBORNE SURVEY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; JET FLOW; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WIND; WIND VELOCITY;

ARCTIC; DENMARK STRAIT; GREENLAND;

EID: 74849098442     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.455     Document Type: Article

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