A Case Study of Offshore Advection of Boundary Layer Rolls over a Stably Stratified Sea Surface

Streaky structures of narrow (8-9 km) high wind belts have been observed from SAR images above the Baltic Sea during stably stratified conditions with offshore winds from the southern parts of Sweden. Case studies using the WRF model and in situ aircraft observations indicate that the streaks origin...

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Main Authors: Nina Svensson, Erik Sahlée, Hans Bergström, Erik Nilsson, Merete Badger, Anna Rutgersson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2017-01-01
Series:Advances in Meteorology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9015891