A laboratory study of the turbulent velocity characteristics in the convective boundary layer

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 770-780

  Sun, Jianning ^a   Jiang, Weimei ^a   Chen, Ziyun ^a   Yuan, Renmin ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Convection water tank; Convective boundary layer (CBL); Entrainment zone; Turbulent velocity

Indexed keywords

EID: 26644459218     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02918721     Document Type: Article

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