Identification of surface wind patterns over the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, using self-organizing maps

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2361-2378

  Nigro, Melissa A ^a   Cassano, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Automatic weather stations; Downslope winds; Mesoscale processes; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Orographic effects

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ANTARCTICA; AUTOMATIC WEATHER STATIONS; DOWNSLOPE WINDS; MESOSCALE PROCESS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS;

WIND;

AIRFLOW; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; JET FLOW; KATABATIC FLOW; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; SURFACE WIND; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND DIRECTION; WIND FIELD;

ANTARCTICA; ROSS ICE SHELF; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84905665939     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00382.1     Document Type: Article

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