Comment on: “The Høvsøre Tall Wind-Profile Experiment: A Description of Wind Profile Observations in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer” by Peña et al. (2014: Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 150, 69–89)

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 537-545

  Bergmann, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a Atmospheric Physics   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atmospheric boundary layer; Baroclinicity; Geostrophic wind; Gradient wind; Isobar curvature; Wind profile

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; METEOROLOGY; WIND;

BAROCLINICITY; EXPERIMENTAL MATERIALS; FREE TROPOSPHERE; GEOSTROPHIC WINDS; ISOBAR CURVATURE; SURFACE DISCONTINUITIES; UNSTABLE CONDITIONS; WIND PROFILES;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER;

BAROCLINIC MODE; BOUNDARY LAYER; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; TROPOSPHERE; WIND PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84945470945     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-015-0052-6     Document Type: Article

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