Controls on boundary layer ventilation: Boundary layer processes and large-scale dynamics

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Sinclair, V A ^a,b   Gray, S L ^a   Belcher, S E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BELT CONVEYORS; HEAT FLUX; PLASMA THEORY; STORMS; VENTILATION;

ACTUAL MASS; BAROCLINIC; BOUNDARY LAYER PROCESS; CONVEYOR BELTS; LARGE-SCALE ADVECTION; LARGE-SCALE DYNAMICS; MASS FLUX; METEOROLOGICAL ANALYSIS; MIDLATITUDE CYCLONES; PASSIVE TRACERS; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

ADVECTION; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; BOUNDARY LAYER; CORRELATION; CYCLONE; MASS TRANSPORT; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TRACER; VENTILATION;

EID: 77953748763     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD012169     Document Type: Article

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