Intermittent bursting of turbulence in a stable boundary layer with low-level jet

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 349-363

  Ohya, Yuji ^a   Nakamura, Reina ^a   Uchida, Takanori ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atmospheric boundary layer; Intermittent turbulence; Low level jet; Stable stratification; Turbulence bursting; Wind tunnel experiment

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLOW VISUALIZATION; JETS; WIND TUNNELS;

ATMOSPHERIC STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER (SBL); LOW-LEVEL JET; RICHARDSON NUMBER; STABLE STRATIFICATION; TURBULENCE BURSTING;

TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLOW VISUALIZATION; JETS; TURBULENCE; WIND TUNNELS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; JET; RICHARDSON NUMBER; STRATIFICATION; TURBULENCE; WIND SHEAR; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 38649124009     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-007-9245-y     Document Type: Article

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