Sea-land breeze development during a summer bora event along the north-eastern Adriatic coast

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 651, 2010, Pages 1554-1571

  Prtenjak, Maja Telišman ^a   Viher, Mladen ^a   Jurković, Jadran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Convergence zone; Lee rotor; Sea breeze front; Sea breeze bora interaction

Indexed keywords

ADRIATIC; CONVERGENCE ZONES; HORIZONTAL PRESSURE; IN-SITU; LEE ROTOR; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ONSHORE FLOW; SATELLITE IMAGES; SEA-BREEZE; SEA-BREEZE FRONTS; SEA-BREEZE/BORA INTERACTION; SEA-LAND BREEZE; SPATIAL POSITIONS; THERMAL FLOWS; TRIESTE; WIND SPEED;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

LANDFORMS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC FRONT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; JET FLOW; LAND BREEZE; LEE WAVE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SEA BREEZE; SUMMER; WIND FIELD; WIND VELOCITY;

ADRIATIC COAST [CROATIA]; CROATIA; ISTRIA; KRK; RAB; RIJEKA BAY;

EID: 77957169778     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.649     Document Type: Article

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