Improvement of the K-profile model for the planetary boundary layer based on large eddy simulation data

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 401-427

  Noh, Y ^a   Cheon, W G ^a   Hong, S Y ^a   Raasch, S ^b  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

K profile model; Large eddy simulation (LES); Non local mixing; PBL model; Planetary boundary layer (PBL)

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; HEAT FLUX; PRANDTL NUMBER;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION (LES);

METEOROLOGY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; ENTRAINMENT; HEAT FLUX; INVERSION LAYER; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

EID: 0037408693     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022146015946     Document Type: Article

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