A case study of the near-neutral coastal internal boundary-layer growth: Aircraft measurements compared with different model estimates

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-33

  Källstrand, Birgitta ^a   Smedman, Ann Sofi ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aircraft measurements; Coastal conditions; Internal boundary layer; Near neutral stability

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COASTAL ZONE; NEAR-NEUTRAL STABILITY;

SWEDEN;

EID: 0031402872     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1000475315106     Document Type: Article

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