Diurnal cycle of thermally driven cross-basin winds in Arizona's meteor crater

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 729-744

  Lehner, Manuela ^a   Whiteman, C David ^a   Hoch, Asebastian W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Diurnal effects; Radiative forcing; Wind

Indexed keywords

ARIZONA; BACKGROUND WINDS; DIURNAL CYCLE; DIURNAL EFFECTS; INVERSION LAYER; METEOR CRATERS; RADIATIVE FORCING; THERMALLY DRIVEN; WIND DIRECTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; METEOR IMPACTS; PRESSURE GRADIENT;

WIND;

CRATER; INSOLATION; RADIATIVE FORCING; SOLAR RADIATION; WIND DIRECTION;

ARIZONA; METEOR CRATER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955015667     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2520.1     Document Type: Article

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