Analysis of second-order moments in surface layer turbulence in an Alpine valley

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 644, 2009, Pages 1750-1765

  de Franceschi, M ^a,b   Zardi, D ^a   Tagliazucca, M ^c   Tampieri, F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b Diocesi Bolzano Bressanone ^*  (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Complex terrain; Monin Obukhov similarity theory; Recursive filter

Indexed keywords

ALPINE VALLEYS; ATMOSPHERIC SURFACE LAYERS; COMPLEX TERRAIN; DATA SELECTION; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FIT PARAMETERS; LOW FREQUENCY; MEAN FLOW; MONIN-OBUKHOV SIMILARITY THEORY; RECURSIVE FILTER; RECURSIVE FILTERS; ROUGHNESS LENGTH; SCATTERED DATA; SECOND ORDER MOMENT; STANDARD DEVIATION; STEADY-STATE CONDITION; SURFACE LAYER TURBULENCE; TRANSITION PERIOD; VALLEY FLOOR; VALLEY WINDS; WIND COMPONENTS;

DATA REDUCTION; DRAG; FLOORS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPLEX TERRAIN; DATA PROCESSING; THEORETICAL STUDY; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; WIND;

ADIGE VALLEY; ALPS; BOLZANO; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TRENTINO-ALTO ADIGE;

EID: 70350654225     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.506     Document Type: Article

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