Vertical velocities and available potential energy generated by landscape variability - Theory

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 397-410

  Baldi, Marina ^a,c   Dalu, G A ^a,c   Pielke Sr , R A ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FRICTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MILITARY OPERATIONS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

AMBIENT FLOWS; AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; CLOUD FORMATIONS; COOL AIRS; LINEAR THEORIES; LOWER TROPOSPHERES; MESOSCALE DYNAMICS; MESOSCALE FLOWS; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUXES; STATIC STABILITIES; SURFACE LAYERS; SURFACE STRESSES; VERTICAL MOTIONS; VERTICAL TRANSPORTS; VERTICAL VELOCITIES; WARM AIRS; WAVE ACTIVITIES; WIND SPEEDS;

WIND POWER;

BOUNDARY LAYER; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TROPOSPHERE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 57649156038     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAMC1539.1     Document Type: Article

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