Vertically integrated sensible-heat budgets for stable nocturnal boundary layers

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 132, Issue 615, 2006, Pages 383-403

  Nakamura, Reina ^a,b   Mahrt, L ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Advection; Mesoscale transport

Indexed keywords

ANEMOMETERS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; HEAT FLUX; STATISTICS; THERMAL GRADIENTS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WIND;

ADVECTION; MESOSCALE TRANSPORT; NOCTURNAL BOUNDARY LAYERS; SENSIBLE-HEAT BUDGETS;

METEOROLOGY;

ADVECTION; NOCTURNAL BOUNDARY LAYER;

EID: 33645500586     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.05.50     Document Type: Article

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