Stable boundary-layer scaling regimes: The SHEBA data

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 201-235

  Grachev, Andrey A ^a,b,c   Fairall, Christopher W ^b   Persson, P Ola G ^a,b   Andreas, Edgar L ^d   Guest, Peter S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

^e NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Coriolis effect; Ekman layer; Monin Obukhov similarity theory; Richardson number; Stable boundary layer

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; GRAVITY WAVES; HEAT FLUX; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND;

CORIOLIS EFFECT; EKMAN LAYER; MONIN-OBUKHOV SIMILARITY THEORY; RICHARDSON NUMBER; STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER (SBL); SURFACE HEAT BUDGET OF THE ARCTIC OCEAN (SHEBA);

METEOROLOGY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CORIOLIS FORCE; EKMAN LAYER; RICHARDSON NUMBER;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; WORLD;

EID: 26844507457     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-004-2729-0     Document Type: Article

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