Statistics of temperature fluctuations in a buoyancy-dominated boundary layer flow simulated by a large eddy simulation model

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 215-224

  Antonelli, Marta ^a   Mazzino, Andrea ^a,b   Rizza, Umberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICS;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATIONS (LES);

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0042822356     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2003)060<0215:SOTFIA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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