Wind regimes associated with a mountain gap at the northeastern adriatic coast

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2089-2105

  Belušić, Danijel ^a   Hrastinski, Mario ^b   Vežcenaj, Zeljko ^c   Grisogono, Branko ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORA WINDS; GEOSTROPHIC WINDS; LOW PRESSURES; NUMERICAL MODEL SIMULATIONS; SEA BREEZE; SOUTH-WESTERLY WINDS; WIND DIRECTIONS; WIND REGIME;

STORMS;

WIND;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYCLONE; MOUNTAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA BREEZE; WIND DIRECTION; WIND FORCING; WIND VELOCITY;

ADRIATIC COAST [CROATIA]; ALPS; CROATIA; DINARIC ALPS; EASTERN ALPS; SENJ;

EID: 84884233919     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-12-0306.1     Document Type: Article

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