Variability of turbulence and its outer scales in a model tropopause jet

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 621-643

  Joseph, Binson ^a   Mahalov, Alex ^a   Nicolaenko, Basil ^a   Tse, Kwan Leung ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUXES; JETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHEARING;

RICHARDSON NUMBER; TURBULENCE SCALINGS;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

STRATIFIED FLOW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TROPOPAUSE; TURBULENCE;

EID: 1842783286     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2004)061<0621:VOTAIO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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