Katabatic flow with Coriolis effect and gradually varying eddy diffusivity

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 377-387

  Kavčič, Iva ^a   Grisogono, Branko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Low level jet; Prandtl model; Strongly stable boundary layer

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PRANDTL NUMBER; TEMPERATURE;

EKMAN-PRANDTL MODEL; KATABATIC FLOW; LOW-LEVEL JET;

CORIOLIS FORCE;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORIOLIS FORCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PRANDTL NUMBER; TEMPERATURE;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CORIOLIS FORCE; DIFFUSIVITY; EDDY; EKMAN LAYER; JET; KATABATIC FLOW; STOKES FORMULA;

EID: 34848860739     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-007-9167-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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