Analytical description of a nocturnal low-level jet

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 650, 2010, Pages 1255-1262

  Shapiro, Alan ^a   Fedorovich, Evgeni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical model; Atmospheric boundary layer; Inertial oscillation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL DESCRIPTION; ANALYTICAL MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYERS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; CORIOLIS PARAMETER; DIMENSIONAL PARAMETERS; DIMENSIONAL PROBLEMS; EDDY VISCOSITY; EQUILIBRIUM STATE; EXACT ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; FRICTIONAL CONSTRAINT; IMPOSED PRESSURE GRADIENT; INERTIAL OSCILLATION; LOW LEVEL JET; MIXING COEFFICIENT; SINGLE PARAMETER; SUDDEN RELEASE; TRANSIENT PROBLEMS; TURBULENT MIXING;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FRICTION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODELS; TROPOSPHERE; VISCOSITY;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER;

FRICTION; JET; LAPLACE TRANSFORM; NOCTURNAL BOUNDARY LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OSCILLATION; TURBULENT MIXING;

EID: 77956209759     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.628     Document Type: Article

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