Marine boundary layer over the subtropical southeast Pacific during VOCALS-REx-Part 2: Synoptic variability

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 4507-4519

  Rahn, D A ^a   Garreaud, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ANTICYCLONE; BOUNDARY LAYER; DIURNAL VARIATION; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE DATA; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WESTERLY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 77952503285     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-10-4507-2010     Document Type: Article

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