Boundary-layer entrainment estimation through assimilation of radiosonde and micrometeorological data into a mixed-layer model

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 405-433

  Margulis, Steven A ^a   Entekhabi, Dara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Entrainment; Mixed layer model

Indexed keywords

AIR ENTRAINMENT; BOUNDARY LAYERS; RADIOSONDES; WATER;

SURFACE FLUXES;

METEOROLOGY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DATA ASSIMILATION; MICROMETEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIOSONDE;

KANSAS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1142268822     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BOUN.0000007221.53446.46     Document Type: Article

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