Impact of skewness and nonlocal effects on scalar and buoyancy fluxes in convective boundary layers

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 151-162

  Cuijpers, J W M ^a,b   Holtslag, A A M ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; HEAT FLUX; VELOCITY;

BUOYANCY FLUXES; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NONLOCAL EFFECTS; SKEWNESS;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

BUOYANCY FLUX; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; SCALAR FLUX;

EID: 0031833675     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1998)055<0151:IOSANE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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