Diagnosis of boundary-layer circulations

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1991, 2013, Pages

  Beare, Robert J ^a   Cullen, Michael J P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Advection; Boundary Layer; Circulation; Ekman Balance; Low Level Jet; Sawyer Eliassen Equation

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; BOILER CIRCULATION;

CLIMATE SYSTEM; DYNAMICAL THEORY; GEOSTROPHIC BALANCE; INERTIAL OSCILLATION; LOW LEVEL JET; MOMENTUM BALANCES; SAWYER-ELIASSEN EQUATION; VERTICAL PLANE;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

EID: 84876540206     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0474     Document Type: Article

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