What shapes mesoscale wind anomalies in coastal upwelling zones?

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 2037-2049

  Boé, Julien ^a,b   Hall, Alex ^a   Colas, François ^c   McWilliams, James C ^c   Qu, Xin ^a   Kurian, Jaison ^c   Kapnick, Sarah B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CERFACS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air sea interactions; California upwelling; Mesoscale wind variations; Orographically induced wind speed variations

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COASTAL CIRCULATION; COASTAL ZONE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; UPWELLING; WIND VELOCITY;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79957877520     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1058-5     Document Type: Article

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