Synoptic controls on boundary-layer characteristics

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 387-409

  Sinclair, Victoria A ^a,b   Belcher, Stephen E ^a   Gray, Suzanne L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Boundary layer structure; Mass budgets; Synoptic scale; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYERS; BAROCLINIC; COLD FRONT; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; EULERIAN; MASS BUDGET; MASS BUDGETS; NEUTRAL BOUNDARY LAYER; SYNOPTIC CONTROLS; THERMAL ADVECTION; WARM FRONTS; WEATHER SYSTEMS;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BUDGET CONTROL; HEAT FLUX; MASS TRANSFER; SOLIDS; TROPOSPHERE; VENTILATION;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER;

ADVECTION; AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; BAROCLINIC MODE; COLD FRONT; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; HEAT FLUX; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE; VENTILATION;

EID: 76649108541     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-009-9455-6     Document Type: Article

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