Modelling the vertical structure of the atmospheric boundary layer over Arctic fjords in Svalbard

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 668, 2012, Pages 1867-1883

  Kilpelainen T ^a,b   Vihma, T ^c   Manninen, M ^d   Sjoblom A ^a,b   Jakobson, E ^e   Palo, T ^e   Maturilli, M ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^f ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Humidity inversion; Low level jet; Mesoscale modelling; Temperature inversion; Topography; WRF

Indexed keywords

ELIMINATION SCHEME; HIGH-PRESSURE CONDITION; LAND SURFACE SCHEME; LOW LEVEL JET; MESOSCALE MODEL; MESOSCALE MODELLING; NEAR-SURFACE VARIABLES; POST PROCESSING; SVALBARD; TEMPERATURE INVERSION STRENGTH; TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; TETHERED BALLOON; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING; WIND SPEED PROFILES; WRF;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; ERRORS; SEA ICE; TOPOGRAPHY; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER SATELLITES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FJORD; HUMIDITY; JET FLOW; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TOPOGRAPHY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84868150664     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1914     Document Type: Article

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