A large eddy simulation study of a quasi-steady, stably stratified atmospheric boundary layer

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1052-1068

  Kosović, Branko ^a,b   Curry, Judith A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; BEAUFORT SEA ARCTIC STRATUS EXPERIMENT; GEOSTROPHIC WIND; INVERSION STRENGTH; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION TECHNIQUE; LATITUDE; QUASI STEADY STATE; SURFACE COOLING RATE; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; ZILITINKEVICH-MIRONOV MODEL;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE;

BOUNDARY LAYER; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; STABILITY; STRATIFICATION;

EID: 0034085380     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2000)057<1052:ALESSO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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