The temporal evolution and spatial structure of the local easterly wind 'Kiyokawa-dashi' in Japan Part II: Numerical simulations

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 161-181

  Sasaki, Kaori ^a   Sawada, Masahiro ^b   Ishii, Shoken ^c   Kanno, Hiromitsu ^a   Mizutani, Kohei ^c   Aoki, Tetsuo ^c   Itabe, Toshikazu ^c   Matsushima, Dai ^b,d   Sha, Weiming ^b   Noda, Akira T ^b,e   Ujiie, Masashi ^b,f   Matsuura, Yousuke ^b,g   Iwasaki, Toshiki ^b  

^a NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR TOHOKU REGION   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^g Hachinohe City Office

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEE WAVE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRADE WIND; WIND VELOCITY;

HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU; YAMAGATA [TOHOKU];

EID: 77953512027     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.2010-204     Document Type: Article

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