A refinement of the Millionshchikov quasi-normality hypothesis for convective boundary layer turbulence

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 7 II, 2005, Pages 2632-2638

  Gryanik, Vladimir M ^a,b   Hartmann, Jörg ^a   Raasch, Siegfried ^c   Schröter, Michael ^c  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; VELOCITY;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER TURBULENCE; FOURTH ORDER MOMENTS (FOM); LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MILLIONSHCHIKOV HYPOTHESIS;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; NUMERICAL METHOD; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER;

EID: 27344438276     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3457.1     Document Type: Article

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