Impact of coherent eddies on airborne measurements of vertical turbulent fluxes

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 425-447

  Lothon, Marie ^a,b   Couvreux, Fleur ^c   Donier, Sylvie ^c   Guichard, Françoise ^c   Lacarrère, Pierre ^c   Lenschow, Donald H ^d   Noilhan, Joël ^c   Saïd, Frédérique ^b  

^a Centre de Recherches Atmospheriques   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE D AÉROLOGIE   (France)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft measurements; Heat fluxes; Mesoscale model; Organised structures; Sahelian boundary layer

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICS;

AIRCRAFT-MEASURED FLUXES; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER (ABL); ORGANISED STRUCTURES; VERTICAL TURBULENT FLUXES;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDDY; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SKEWNESS; TURBULENT FLOW; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

AFRICA; NIGER [WEST AFRICA]; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 34548693669     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-007-9182-9     Document Type: Article

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