Anisotropies and university of buoyancy-dominated turbulent fluctuations: A large-eddy simulation study

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2642-2656

  Antonelli, Marta ^a   Lanotte, Alessandra S ^b   Mazzino, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; HIGH-RESOLUTION LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION;

METEOROLOGY;

ANISOTROPY; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; METEOROLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND;

ANISOTROPY; BUOYANCY; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; FLOW MODELING; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; TURBULENCE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 34547811983     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3951.1     Document Type: Article

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