Along-Coast Features of Bora-Related Turbulence

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 527-545

  Večenaj, Željko ^a   Belušić, Danijel ^b   Grubišić, Vanda ^c,d   Grisogono, Branko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adriatic Sea; Bora wind; Dissipation rate; Mesoscale Alpine Programme; Turbulence averaging interval; Turbulent kinetic energy; WRF ARW model

Indexed keywords

ADRIATIC SEA; CROSS-WIND; DISSIPATION RATES; DROPSONDE DATA; HORIZONTAL ADVECTION; INTENSIVE OBSERVATION PERIODS; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE ALPINE PROGRAMME; PARAMETRIZATIONS; TURBULENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TURBULENCE STRUCTURES; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR; WEATHER RESEARCH;

KINETIC ENERGY;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

KATABATIC FLOW; KINETIC ENERGY; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; TURBULENCE; WIND SHEAR;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84861582392     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-012-9697-6     Document Type: Article

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