The liquid water oscillation in modeling boundary layer cumuli with third-order turbulence closure models

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 1621-1629

  Cheng, Anning ^a   Xu, Kuan Man ^b   Golaz, Jean Christophe ^c  

^a HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BUOYANCY; CLOUDS; FLUXES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WATER;

CLOUD FRACTION; LIQUID WATER OSCILLATION (LWO); VERTICAL VELOCITY;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CUMULUS; NUMERICAL MODEL; TURBULENCE; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 3943106230     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2004)061<1621:TLWOIM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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