Application of a subfilter-scale flux model over the ocean using OHATS field data

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3217-3225

  Kelly, Mark ^a,b   Wyngaard, John C ^c   Sullivan, Peter P ^d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR INTERFACE; ANALYSIS OF DATA; ATMOSPHERIC SIMULATIONS; FIELD DATA; FLUX MODEL; HORIZONTAL ARRAYS; MODEL RESOLUTION; MOMENTUM FLUX; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PRESSURE FLUCTUATION; RATE-EQUATION MODELS; SCALAR FLUXES; STRESS MODELS; SUBFILTER SCALE; SUBFILTERS;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; MOMENTUM; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 73549088758     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS2903.1     Document Type: Letter

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