Wind tunnel study of turbulent flow structure in the convective boundary layer capped by a temperature inversion

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1273-1289

  Fedorovich, Evgeni ^a   Kaiser, Rolf ^a   Rau, Matthias ^a   Plate, Erich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TURBULENT FLOW; WIND TUNNEL MODELLING;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; FLOW STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE INVERSION; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 0030511816     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1996)053<1273:WTSOTF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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