Observations of summer turbulent surface fluxes in a High Arctic fjord

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 140, Issue 679, 2014, Pages 666-675

  Kral, Stephan T ^a,b   Sjöblom, Anna ^a,c   Nygård, Tiina ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Coordinate rotation and tilt correction; Marine atmospheric boundary layer; Monin Obukhov similarity theory; Sonic anemometer; Surface layer; Svalbard; Topographic effects

Indexed keywords

ANEMOMETERS; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; HEAT FLUX; WIND;

MARINE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; MONIN-OBUKHOV SIMILARITY THEORY; SONIC ANEMOMETER; SURFACE LAYERS; SVALBARD; TILT CORRECTION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS;

MOMENTUM;

ANEMOMETER; BOUNDARY LAYER; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; MONIN-OBUKHOV THEORY; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SURFACE LAYER; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TURBULENT FLOW;

ARCTIC; ISFJORDEN; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84896035192     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2167     Document Type: Article

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