The effect of baroclinicity on the wind in the planetary boundary layer

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 141, Issue 687, 2015, Pages 619-630

  Floors, R ^a   Pena A ^a   Gryning, S E ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Baroclinicity; Geostrophic wind; Gradient wind; Wind lidar; Wind profile

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; OPTICAL RADAR;

BAROCLINICITY; BOUNDARY LAYER HEIGHTS; GEOSTROPHIC WINDS; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; SEASONAL DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; WIND LIDAR; WIND PROFILES;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 84924633244     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2386     Document Type: Article

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