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Numerical Experiments of Wind Circulation off Baja California Coast

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Experimental and Computational Fluid Mechanics

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In order to study the effect of orography on winds off Baja California, the momentum primitive equations describing an atmospheric flow over that region are solved numerically on a boundary-fitted grid. Numerical experiments are conducted for several flow conditions. Results show a remarkable agreement to available observations. Von Kármán vortex street shown in satellite images are also reproduced.

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Acknowledgments

Authors want to thank Dr. Edmundo Lanz from Technologic Institute of Guaymas and to an anonymous reviewer for their valuable comments that that helped to improve this manuscript.

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  1. Centro Nacional de Datos Oceanograficos, Instituto de Investigaciones Oceanologicas/UABC, Km. 107 Carretera Tijuana-Ensenada, 22860, Ensenada, B. C. México

    Torres-Navarrete Carlos, Larios-Castillo Sergio & Macias-Carballo Mariana

  2. Depatamento de Oceanografia Fisica, Instituto de Investigaciones Oceanologicas/UABC, Km. 107 Carretera Tijuana-Ensenada, 22860, Ensenada, B. C. México

    Mejia-Trejo Adán & Gil-Silva Eduardo

  3. Facultad de Ingenieria, Instituto de Investigaciones Oceanologicas/UABC, Km. 107 Carretera Tijuana-Ensenada, 22860, Ensenada, B. C. México

    García-Toscano Jaime

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Carlos, TN., Sergio, LC., Adán, MT., Jaime, GT., Mariana, MC., Eduardo, GS. (2014). Numerical Experiments of Wind Circulation off Baja California Coast. In: Klapp, J., Medina, A. (eds) Experimental and Computational Fluid Mechanics. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00116-6_28

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