Strong Westerly Wind Events in the Strait of Juan de Fuca

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 445-465

  Mass, Clifford F ^a   Warner, Michael D ^a   Steed, Rick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRESSURE GRADIENT; TROPOSPHERE;

GEOSTROPHIC WINDS; HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL SIMULATION; MESOSCALE EVOLUTION; MESOSCALE OBSERVATION; PRESSURE PERTURBATION; SHORTWAVE TROUGHS; STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA; SYNOPTIC EVOLUTION;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE; TROUGH; WESTERLY; WIND;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; JUAN DE FUCA STRAIT; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 84916213281     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-13-00026.1     Document Type: Article

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