Role of the Shear and inversion strength during sunset turbulence over land: Characteristic length scales

16th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 181-186

  Pino, David ^a   Jonker, Harm J J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICS; WIND EFFECTS;

GEOSTROPHIC WINDS; INVERSION STRENGTH; PEAK SHIFT; UNCONFINED CONDITIONS;

TURBULENCE;

EID: 23744447657     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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