Footprints in homogeneously and heterogeneously driven boundary layers derived from a lagrangian stochastic particle model embedded into large-eddy simulation

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 225-248

  Steinfeld, Gerald ^a   Raasch, Siegfried ^a   Markkanen, Tiina ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Convective boundary layer; Footprint; Lagrangian stochastic model; Large eddy simulation; Neutral boundary layer; Stable boundary layer

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; DRAG REDUCTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; METEOROLOGY; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; FOOTPRINT; LAGRANGIAN STOCHASTIC MODEL; NEUTRAL BOUNDARY LAYER; STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; STOCHASTICITY; TURBULENCE;

EID: 54049085281     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-008-9317-7     Document Type: Article

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