Nonlocal boundary layer: The pure buoyancy-driven and the buoyancy-shear-driven cases

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Colonna, N M ^a   Ferrero, E ^a   Rizza, U ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; AERODYNAMICS; AIRCRAFT; AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DAMPING; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; METEOROLOGY; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

AIRCRAFT MEASUREMENT; DISSIPATION RATES; DYNAMICAL EQUATION; EDDY SIZE; FOURTH-ORDER MOMENTS; GAUSSIAN; LENGTH SCALE; NEW APPROACHES; NEW MODEL; NONLOCAL BOUNDARY; NONLOCALITY; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; QUASINORMAL APPROXIMATION; RANS MODELS; REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES; STABILITY CONDITION; THIRD ORDER; THIRD ORDER MOMENT; TIME-SCALE; VERTICAL TRANSPORTS;

BUOYANCY;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; BUOYANCY; GAUSSIAN METHOD; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MODEL TEST; PARAMETERIZATION; TURBULENCE;

EID: 65849195679     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JD010682     Document Type: Article

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