Turbulence spectra and cospectra under the influence of large eddies in the energy balance experiment (EBEX)

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 235-251

  Zhang, Yu ^a   Liu, Heping ^a   Foken, Thomas ^b   Williams, Quinton L ^a   Liu, Shuhua ^c   Mauder, Matthias ^d   Liebethal, Claudia ^b  

^a Jackson State University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Energy Balance EXperiment; Large eddies; Monin Obukhov similarity theory; Turbulence spectra and cospectra

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC SURFACE LAYERS; BARE SOIL AREAS; BARE SOILS; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; FLOOD IRRIGATION; HETEROGENEOUS SOILS; HORIZONTAL ADVECTION; LARGE EDDY; MONIN-OBUKHOV SIMILARITY THEORY; RUN TO RUN; STABLE INTERNAL BOUNDARY LAYERS; STEP TRANSITIONS; SURFACE ENERGY BALANCE; TURBULENCE SPECTRUM; UNDERLYING SURFACE; WATER VAPOUR;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COTTON; ENERGY BALANCE; EXPERIMENTS; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ADVECTION; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; EDDY; ENERGY BALANCE; IRRIGATION; MONIN-OBUKHOV THEORY; SOIL MOISTURE; STRATIFICATION; SURFACE LAYER; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 77954242539     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-010-9504-1     Document Type: Article

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