Numerical Investigation of Boundary-Layer Evolution and Nocturnal Low-Level Jets: Local versus Non-Local PBL Schemes

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 171-208

  Zhang, Kesu ^a   Mao, Huiting ^a   Civerolo, Kevin ^b   Berman, Stephen ^c   Ku, Jia Yeong ^b   Rao, S Trivikrama ^a,b   Doddridge, Bruce ^d   Philbrick, C Russell ^e   Clark, Richard ^f  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^f MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blackadar PBL; Gayno Seaman PBL; Low level jets; Meteorological modeling; MM5; Planetary boundary layer

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000569105     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011557402158     Document Type: Article

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