Local pressure-transport structure in a convective atmospheric boundary layer

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1112-1128

  Lin, Ching Long ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; PRESSURE;

EID: 0034123250     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.870365     Document Type: Article

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