Alpine lee cyclogenesis influence on air-sea heat exchanges and marine atmospheric boundary layer thermodynamics over the western Mediterranean during a Tramontane/Mistral event

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 108, Issue C2, 1998, Pages

  Flamant, Cyrille ^a  

^a INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

Author keywords

Alpine lee cyclogenesis; atmospheric boundary layer; Gulf of Lion; lidar; mistral; numerical prediction model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957824827     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JC001040     Document Type: Article

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