Small-scale and mesoscale variability in cloudy boundary layers: Joint probability density functions

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 3519-3539

  Larson, Vincent E ^a   Golaz, Jean Christophe ^b   Cotton, William R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

MASS-FLUX SCHEMES;

ATMOSPHERICS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; VELOCITY;

EID: 0037116277     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2002)059<3519:SSAMVI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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