Mean and flux horizontal variability of virtual potential temperature, moisture, and carbon dioxide: Aircraft observations and LES Study

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4435-4451

  Górska, Monica ^a   de Arellano, Jordi Vilà Guerau ^a   LeMone, Margaret A ^b   van Heerwaarden, Chiel C ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CARBON DIOXIDE; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MOISTURE; OXIDES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TROPOSPHERE; TURBULENCE; VEGETATION; WIND EFFECTS;

ABOVE GROUND LEVELS; AIRCRAFT MEASUREMENTS; AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYERS; CARBON DIOXIDE FLUXES; DO-MAINS; ENTRAINMENT RATIOS; ENTRAINMENT ZONES; FLIGHT TRACKS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HORIZONTAL VARIABILITIES; LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATIONS; LATENT HEAT FLUXES; NORMALIZED DIFFERENTIAL VEGETATION INDICES; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURES; SOUTHEAST KANSAS; SPECIFIC HUMIDITIES; STRONG CORRELATIONS; SURFACE FLUXES; SURFACE VARIABILITIES; TURBULENT FLUXES; WINTER WHEATS;

FLUXES;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CARBON DIOXIDE; HUMIDITY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MOISTURE; NDVI; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 57149129999     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2230.1     Document Type: Article

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