Interaction between wind and temperature fields in the planetary boundary layer for a spatially heterogeneous surface heat flux

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 225-246

  Kim, Hyoung Jin ^a   Noh, Yign ^a   Raasch, Siegfried ^b  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Convection; Entrainment; Heterogeneous surface heat flux; Large eddy simulation; Numerical modelling

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; HEAT FLUX; KINETIC ENERGY; TURBULENCE; WIND;

CONVECTIVE EDDIES; CORIOLIS FORCE;

METEOROLOGY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; HEAT FLUX; TEMPERATURE; WIND FIELD;

BOUNDARY LAYER; EDDY; ENTRAINMENT; HEAT FLUX; TEMPERATURE; WIND FIELD;

EID: 1842483251     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BOUN.0000016471.75325.75     Document Type: Article

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