A Simple Model for the Afternoon and Early Evening Decay of Convective Turbulence Over Different Land Surfaces

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 301-324

  Nadeau, Daniel F ^a   Pardyjak, Eric R ^b   Higgins, Chad W ^a   Fernando, Harinda Joseph S ^c   Parlange, Marc B ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b University of Utah   (United States)

^c University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

Afternoon transition; Curve fitting; Decay of convective turbulence; Early evening transition; Sensible heat flux; Surface layer; Turbulent kinetic energy

Indexed keywords

AFTERNOON TRANSITION; CONVECTIVE TURBULENCE; EARLY EVENING TRANSITION; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SURFACE LAYER; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CURVE FITTING; DECAY (ORGANIC); KINETIC ENERGY; RANGE FINDING; SOLAR ENERGY; SUN; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; TURBULENCE;

HEAT FLUX;

BUOYANCY; DISSIPATION; ENERGY BALANCE; KINETIC ENERGY; LAND SURFACE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE ENERGY; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER;

EID: 80053644785     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-011-9645-x     Document Type: Article

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