Weather regimes and orographic circulation around New Caledonia

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 61, Issue 7-12, 2010, Pages 413-431

  Lefèvre, Jérôme ^a   Marchesiello, Patrick ^a   Jourdain, Nicolas C ^a   Menkes, Christophe ^a   Leroy, Anne ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

^b Meteo France   (New Caledonia)

Author keywords

Island scale circulation; Mesoscale models; Scatterometer winds; Weather regime

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC PARAMETERS; COLD AIR; COMPOSITING; CORNER WIND; DRAINAGE FLOWS; DYNAMICAL BEHAVIORS; FLOW SPLITTING; HEATING CYCLES; ISLAND-SCALE CIRCULATION; LOCAL CLIMATE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE MODEL; MOUNTAIN RANGES; NEW CALEDONIA; QUIKSCAT; SCALING ANALYSIS; SCATTEROMETERS; SOUTH PACIFIC CONVERGENCE ZONES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL SCALE; SUBTROPICAL JET; SURFACE WINDS; THERMAL CONTROL; VERTICAL MIXING; WARM SEASONS; WEATHER REGIMES; WEATHER TYPES;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATE MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING;

WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HEATING; JET STREAM; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; QUIKSCAT; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL VARIATION; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VERTICAL MIXING; WEATHER; WIND;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL WATERS; COLD AIR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HEAT SENSITIVITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEW CALEDONIA; PREDICTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHY; WEATHER; WIND;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEW CALEDONIA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WEATHER; WIND;

NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA]; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 77956010700     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2010.06.012     Document Type: Article

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