Flow Interaction with TopographyReferences
To learn more, see the following COMET modules:
- Landfalling Fronts and Cyclones / Conceptual Background:(http://www.meted.ucar.edu/mesoprim/lff/print.htm#2)
- Gap Winds (http://www.meted.ucar.edu/mesoprim/gapwinds/)
- Low-level Coastal Jets (http://www.meted.ucar.edu/mesoprim/coastaljets/)
- Flow Interaction with Topography (http://www.meted.ucar.edu/mesoprim/flowtopo/)
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Deacu, D., Zadra, A., Hanesiak, J., 2010: Simulating wind channelling over Frobisher Bay and its interaction with downslope winds during the 7-8 November 2006 wind event. Atmosphere-Ocean, 48, 101 – 121.
Kozo TL (1984) Mesoscale wind phenomena along the Alaskan Beaufort Sea coast. In: Barnes PW, Schell DM, Reimnitz E (eds.), The Alaskan Beaufort Sea: Ecosystems and Environment. Academic Press, New York, pp 23-45
Moore, G. W. K., I. A. Renfrew, 2005: Tip Jets and Barrier Winds: A QuikSCAT Climatology of High Wind Speed Events around Greenland. J. Climate, 18, 3713–3725.
Samelson, R. M., P. L. Barbour, 2008: Low-Level Jets, Orographic Effects, and Extreme Events in Nares Strait: A Model-Based Mesoscale Climatology. Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 4746–4759.