On the impact of surface heterogeneity on a realistic convective boundary layer

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Huang, Hsin Yuan ^a   Margulis, Steven A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; CROSS CORRELATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS SURFACE; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION MODELS; LOCAL FLOWS; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; REALISTIC ENVIRONMENTS; REGIONAL WEATHER; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; SURFACE FLUX; SURFACE HETEROGENEITIES; SURFACE ORGANIZATION; THERMAL BLENDING; VERTICAL MIXING; VERTICAL PROFILE; VERTICAL SOUNDING;

AERODYNAMICS; BLENDING; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; MOMENTUM; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE FLUX; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 67649980360     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007175     Document Type: Article

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