Spectral similarity between scalars at very low frequencies in the unstable atmospheric surface layer over the Tibetan plateau

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 85-103

  Asanuma, Jun ^a,b   Tamagawa, Ichiro ^c   Ishikawa, Hirohiko ^d   Ma, Yaoming ^e   Hayashi, Taiichi ^d   Qi, Yongqiang ^f,g   Wang, Jiemin ^h  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^f KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g China Patent Agent (HK) Ltd   (China)

^h Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Energy containing range; Entrainment; Evaporation; Land atmosphere interaction; Sensible heat flux

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CORRELATION METHODS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HEAT FLUX; LANDFORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC SURFACE LAYER; ENERGY-CONTAINING RANGE; LAND-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTION; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CORRELATION METHODS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HEAT FLUX; LANDFORMS; METEOROLOGY;

EDDY COVARIANCE; ENTRAINMENT; EVAPORATION; FOURIER TRANSFORM; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SURFACE FLUX; SURFACE LAYER; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 33846181946     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-006-9096-y     Document Type: Article

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