On entrainment rates in nocturnal marine stratocumulus

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 129, Issue 595 PART B, 2003, Pages 3469-3493

  Stevens, Bjorn ^a,b   Lenschow, Donald H ^b   Faloona, Ian ^b   Moeng, C H ^b   Lilly, D K ^c   Blomquist, B ^d   Vali, G ^e   Bandy, A ^d   Campos, T ^b   Gerber, H ^f   Haimov, S ^e   Morley, B ^b   Thornton, D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^f GERBER SCIENTIFIC INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud top entrainment instability; Large eddy simulation; Turbulent mixing

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; TURBULENCE;

MACROSCOPIC CONDITIONS;

METEOROLOGY;

ENTRAINMENT; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; NOCTURNAL BOUNDARY LAYER; STRATOCUMULUS; TURBULENT MIXING;

EID: 0038312603     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.02.202     Document Type: Article

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