A laboratory modeling of the velocity field in the convective boundary layer with the particle image velocimetry technique

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 631-637

  Li, Pingyang ^a,b   Jiang, Weimei ^a   Sun, Jianning ^a   Yuan, Renmin ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Convective boundary layer (CBL); Convective water tank; PIV technique; Velocity field

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; FLOW MODELING; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY PROFILE;

EID: 0142218493     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02915506     Document Type: Article

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