Boundary-Layer Structure Near an Ice Edge as a Function of Wind Direction

• Main Author: Glendening, John W.
• Other Authors: NAVAL RESEARCH LAB MONTEREY CA
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1992
• Subjects: Meteorology; Snow; Ice and Permafrost; *BOUNDARY LAYER; *ICE; *GEOSTROPHIC WIND; *WIND DIRECTION; *ARCTIC REGIONS; *FRONTS(METEOROLOGY); VELOCITY; LAYERS; WATER; VARIATIONS; SEA BREEZE; PAPER; FLOW; ASYMMETRY; SURFACES; SENSITIVITY; EDGES; WIND; PE61153N; WUDN251030; Arctic; Mellor; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA268437; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA268437

This paper examines the Sensitivity of boundary-layer (BL) frontal' features, created by differences across an ice edge and characterized by positive vertical velocity (w), to variations in geostrophic wind direction (a), particularly for flow approximately parallel to the ice edge. Notable is...