Influence of shallow cumuli on subcloud turbulence fluxes analyzed from aircraft data

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 665-676

  Ötles, Zekai ^a,b   Young, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT OBSERVATION; CUMULI; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLUX;

EID: 0030454370     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1996)053<0665:IOSCOS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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