Nocturnal wind structure and plume growth rates due to inertial oscillations

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1050-1063

  Gupta, Shekhar ^a   McNider, R T ^a   Trainer, Michael ^b   Zamora, Robert J ^b   Knupp, Kevin ^a   Singh, M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; PLUME;

BOUNDARY LAYER; PLUME;

EID: 0031401765     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1997)036<1050:NWSAPG>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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