Surface-layer scaling for the convection-induced stress regime

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 423-439

  Grachev, A A ^a   Fairall, C W ^b   Zilitinkevich, S S ^a,c,d  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Free convection; Roughness length; Surface layer

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTION; STRESS; TURBULENCE;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTION; MONIN-OBUKHOV THEORY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 0031405114     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1000281625985     Document Type: Article

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