Entrainment Parameterization in Convective Boundary Layers

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 813-828

  VanZanten, Margreet C ^a   Duynkerke, Peter G ^a   Cuijpers, Joannes W M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX; SMOKE;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; ENTRAINMENT FLUX; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION (LES);

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

EID: 0345325563     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<0813:EPICBL>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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