A case study on the effects of heterogeneous soil moisture on mesoscale boundary-layer structure in the Southern Great Plains, U.S.A. Part I: Simple prognostic model

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 195-238

  Desai, Ankur R ^a   Davis, Kenneth J ^a   Senff, Christoph J ^b   Ismail, Syed ^c   Browell, Edward V ^c   Stauffer, David R ^a   Reen, Brian P ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary layer depth; Convective boundary layer; Lidar; Soil moisture; Surface buoyancy flux

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; FORECASTING; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SOILS; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

AIRBORNE REMOTELY SENSED SURFACE; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY-LAYER DEPTH; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE BUOYANCY FLUX; SURFACE ENERGY FLUXES;

METEOROLOGY;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; FORECASTING; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS; METEOROLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SOILS; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

BOUNDARY LAYER; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MODEL; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL VARIATION;

GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33744455436     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-005-9024-6     Document Type: Article

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