Use of pseudoadiabatic adjustment of turbulence for a simplified nighttime stratocumulus case: A one-dimensional study

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 7 I, 2000, Pages 2317-2328

  Sigg, Robert ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIURNAL VARIATION; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; STRATOCUMULUS; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER;

EID: 0033830272     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<2317:UOPAOT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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