Numerical simulations of island-scale airflow over maui and the maui vortex under summer trade wind conditions

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2706-2736

  Carlis, DaNa L ^a,b,d   Chen, Yi Leng ^c   Morris, Vernon R ^a  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Weather Service   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONIC VORTICES; ASYMMETRIC STRUCTURES; COUNTER-ROTATING VORTICES; DOWNSLOPE; DOWNSLOPE FLOW; HEATING CYCLES; LAND SURFACE MODELS; LATENT HEAT RELEASE; LOW LEVEL; MESOSCALE MODEL; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OROGRAPHIC BLOCKING; PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY; RETURN FLOW; REVERSED FLOW; SURFACE OBSERVATION; TRADE WINDS;

COMMERCE; LANDFORMS; ROTATION; WIND;

VORTEX FLOW;

AIRFLOW; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CYCLONE; ISLAND; LAND SURFACE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA BREEZE; SUMMER; TRADE WIND; VORTEX FLOW; WESTERLY; WIND VELOCITY;

HALEAKALA; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; MAUI; MAUI COUNTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955576067     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR3236.1     Document Type: Article

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