Evaluation of modeled atmospheric boundary layer depth at the WLEF tower

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 206-215

  Denning, A Scott ^a   Zhang, Ni ^a   Yi, Chuixiang ^b   Branson, Mark ^a   Davis, Ken ^c   Kleist, John ^a   Bakwin, Peter ^d  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Planetary boundary layer (PBL); RUC; WLEF

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; BUOYANCY FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; DIURNAL ACTIVITY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 39149087974     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2007.08.012     Document Type: Article

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