An easterly tip jet off Cape Farewell, Greenland. I: Aircraft observations

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 645, 2009, Pages 1919-1933

  Renfrew, I A ^a   Outten, S D ^a   Moore, G W K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Barrier wind; Greenland flow distortion experiment (gfdex); Topographic flow copyright

Indexed keywords

FLOW DISTORTION; GREENLAND; TOPOGRAPHIC FLOW COPYRIGHT;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CATCHMENTS; COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; JETS; LANDFORMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPOSPHERE; WIND EFFECTS;

EXPERIMENTS;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BAROTROPIC MODE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD COVER; COASTAL ZONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; JET; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY; WIND STRESS; WIND VELOCITY;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); CAPE FAREWELL; EGGER ISLAND; GREENLAND;

EID: 74849123748     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.513     Document Type: Article

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