Numerical simulations of the impacts of land-cover change on a southern sea breeze in south-west Western Australia

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 485-503

  Kala, J ^a   Lyons, T J ^a   Abbs, D J ^b   Nair, U S ^c  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Land cover change; Regional Atmospheric Modelling System; Scaling analysis; Sea breeze; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELLING; BARE SOILS; ENHANCED SURFACE; HIGH RESOLUTION; LAND-COVER CHANGE; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; QUALITATIVE FEATURES; ROUGHNESS LENGTH; SCALING ANALYSIS; SEA BREEZE; SENSITIVITY TESTS; SURFACE WINDS; SYSTEM SCALING; VOLUME FLUX; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LANDFORMS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION;

SOIL MOISTURE;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAND COVER; SEA BREEZE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE WIND;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77952426907     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-010-9486-z     Document Type: Article

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