Long-term study of coherent structures in the atmospheric surface layer

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-24

  Barthlott, Christian ^a,b   Drobinski, Philippe ^c   Fesquet, Clément ^a   Dubos, Thomas ^a   Pietras, Christophe ^a  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

Author keywords

Atmospheric surface layer; Coherent structures; Microfront; Turbulence measurements; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC SURFACE LAYER; COHERENT STRUCTURES; OBJECTIVE DETECTION TECHNIQUE;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DETECTION METHOD; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; TURBULENT FLOW; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548415041     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-007-9190-9     Document Type: Article

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