Identifying nonstationarity in turbulence series

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 37-56

  Andreas, Edgar L ^a   Geiger, Cathleen A ^b   Treviño, George ^c   Claffey, Kerry J ^d  

^a North West Research Associates Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c CHIRES Inc   (United States)

^d US Army Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric surface layer; Cloud forcing; Integral scale; Nonstationarity; Time series analysis; Time dependent memory method (TDM method)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; CLOUDS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER VAPOR;

CLOUD FORCING; NONSTATIONARITY; TIME-DEPENDENT MEMORY METHOD;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; CLOUDS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER VAPOR;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CIRRUS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; NONLINEARITY; PROBABILITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 39949083038     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-007-9252-z     Document Type: Article

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