Water-vapour variability within a convective boundary-layer assessed by large-eddy simulations and IHOP _2002 observations

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 611, 2005, Pages 2665-2693

  Couvreux, Fleur ^a   Guichard, F ^a   Redelsperger, J L ^a   Kiemle, C ^c   Masson, V ^a   Lafore, J P ^a   Flamant, C ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heterogeneities; High resolution simulations; Humidity; Lidar data

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; OPTICAL RADAR; TROPOSPHERE;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY-LAYER; HIGH-RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION (LES); WATER-VAPOUR VARIABILITY;

METEOROLOGY;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; HUMIDITY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 28144436881     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.167     Document Type: Article

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