Characteristics of vertical velocity in marine stratocumulus: Comparison of large eddy simulations with observations

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Guo, Huan ^a   Liu, Yangang ^a   Daum, Peter H ^a   Senum, Gunnar I ^a   Tao, Wei Kuo ^b  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Marine stratocumulus.; Subgrid variability; Vertical velocity

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; POWER SPECTRUM; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICS; VELOCITY;

COMPUTER RESOURCES; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; MARINE STRATOCUMULUS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); STANDARD DEVIATION; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS; SUB-GRID VARIABILITY; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 62749139520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/3/4/045020     Document Type: Article

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