Convective boundary layers driven by nonstationary surface heat fluxes

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 727-738

  van Driel, Robert ^a   Jonker, Harm J J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Large eddy simulations; Mixed layer; Radiative convective equilibrium; Surface fluxes

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; CONVECTIVE VELOCITY; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; DRY CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; GENERIC SITUATION; INVERSION ZONES; LARGE EDDY; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION MODELS; MIXED LAYER; MIXED-LAYER MODELS; NONSTATIONARY; PHASE LAGS; RADIATIVE-CONVECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM; SURFACE FLUX; SURFACE FLUXES; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; TIME FRAME; TIME-SCALES; TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS; TURNOVER TIME; VELOCITY SCALE;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; SUN; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

HEAT FLUX;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; HEAT FLUX; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MIXED LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 79954999128     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3643.1     Document Type: Article

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