Surface airflow around Windless Bight, Ross Island, Antarctica

Abstract Ross Island, Antarctica is located along the Transantarctic Mountains and is subjected to a strong southerly mountain‐parallel wind regime. Despite this, Windless Bight on the island's southern coast is a region of anomalous calm. The atmospheric boundary layer dynamics that gives rise...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
Main Authors: O'Connor, William P., Bromwich, David H.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Wiley 1988
Subjects:
Hut Point
Hut Point Peninsula
McMurdo Sound
Ross Island
Scott Base
Transantarctic Mountains
Windless Bight
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/qj.49711448205
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https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/qj.49711448205

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