An easterly tip jet off Cape Farewell, Greenland. II: Simulations and dynamics

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 645, 2009, Pages 1934-1949

  Outten, S D ^a   Renfrew, I A ^a   Petersen, G N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barrier wind; Greenland flow distortion experiment; Topographic flow; Unified model

Indexed keywords

FLOW DISTORTION; GREENLAND; TOPOGRAPHIC FLOW; UNIFIED MODEL;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUDGET CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

JETS;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; JET; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEA SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WIND FORCING; WIND VELOCITY;

ARCTIC; CAPE FAREWELL; EGGER ISLAND; GREENLAND;

EID: 74849116714     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.531     Document Type: Article

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