Anomalous scaling of cumulus cloud boundaries

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 214-217

  Siebesma, A P ^a   Jonker, H J J ^a,b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATION; CUMULUS CLOUD; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

CLOUDS;

EID: 4243460384     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.214     Document Type: Article

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