Turbulence statistics of a Kelvin-Helmholtz billow event observed in the night-time boundary layer during the Cooperative Atmosphere-Surface Exchange Study field program

Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans

Volumn 34, Issue 2-4, 2001, Pages 189-204

  Blumen, William ^a   Banta, Robert ^b   Burns, Sean P ^c   Fritts, David C ^d   Newsom, Rob ^e   Poulos, Gregory S ^d   Sun, Jielun ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d Northwest Research Associates ^*  (United States)

^e Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Billows; Kelvin Helmholtz instability; Night time boundary layer; Turbulent mixing

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; INSTABILITY; MIXING; TURBULENCE;

KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY; NOCTURNAL BOUNDARY LAYER; TURBULENT MIXING;

EID: 0034838426     PISSN: 03770265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0265(01)00067-7     Document Type: Article

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