A regional real-time forecast of marine boundary layers during VOCALS-REx

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 421-437

  Wang, S ^a   O'Neill, L W ^a   Jiang, Q ^a   De Szoeke, S P ^b   Hong, X ^a   Jin, H ^a   Thompson, W T ^a   Zheng, X ^c  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; FORECASTING METHOD; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPEN OCEAN; PARAMETERIZATION; REAL TIME; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TROPOSPHERE; WIND SHEAR; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 78751482242     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-421-2011     Document Type: Article

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