Investigation of upstream boundary layer influence on mountain wave breaking and lee wave rotors using a large-eddy simulation

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3147-3164

  Smith, Craig M ^a   Skyllingstad, Eric D ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL LAYER; DOWNSLOPE; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION MODELS; LEE WAVES; MOUNTAIN WAVE; NONLINEAR WAVE SYSTEM; SHEAR PRODUCTION; STAGNATION REGIONS; STAGNATION ZONES; STRONG TURBULENCE; SURFACE COOLING; SURFACE FLUX; SURFACE HEATING; SURFACE WARMING; TURBULENCE GENERATION; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS; WAVEBREAKING;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COOLING SYSTEMS; HEATING; JETS; LANDFORMS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; ROTORS; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

HEAT FLUX; JET STREAM; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; LEE WAVE; SURFACE FLUX; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; WAVE BREAKING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 73549118581     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS2949.1     Document Type: Article

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