Convective profile constants revisited

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 495-515

  Grachev, A A ^a,d   Fairall, C W ^b   Bradley, E F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Businger Dyer formulae; Flux gradient relations; Free convection; Monin Obukhov theory

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; MONIN-OBUKHOV THEORY; NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 0034069919     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1002452529672     Document Type: Article

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