Intermittent turbulence associated with a density current passage in the stable boundary layer

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 199-219

  Sun, Jielun ^a   Burns, Sean P ^a   Lenschow, Donald H ^j   Banta, Robert ^b   Newsom, Rob ^c   Coulter, Richard ^d   Frasier, Stephen ^e   Ince, Turker ^e   Nappo, Carmen ^f   Cuxart, Joan ^g   Blumen, William ^h   Lee, Xuhui ⁱ   Hu, Xin Zhang ⁱ  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^f Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division   (United States)

^g Instituto National Meteorologia ^*  (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

ⁱ YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j NONE

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Author keywords

Density currents; Intermittent turbulence; Nocturnal boundary layer; Stable surface layer

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; TURBULENCE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVES;

SOLITARY WAVES;

METEOROLOGY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DENSITY CURRENT; TURBULENCE; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 0036837703     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019969131774     Document Type: Article

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