Large-Eddy Simulation of the Daytime Boundary Layer in an Idealized Valley Using the Weather Research and Forecasting Numerical Model

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 49-75

  Catalano, Franco ^a   Moeng, Chin Hoh ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary layer height; Geostrophic wind forcing; Horizontal breeze; Subsidence; Surface flux heterogeneity; Turbulent kinetic energy budget

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX STRUCTURE; DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; FLOW CIRCULATION; GEOSTROPHIC WIND FORCING; GEOSTROPHIC WINDS; HORIZONTAL BREEZE; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; LENGTH SCALE; METEOROLOGICAL MODELS; MOMENTUM FLUX; MONIN-OBUKHOV SIMILARITY THEORY; NUMERICAL MODELS; PERIODIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; PERIODIC RIDGES; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; SOIL SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SUB-GRIDS; SUBGRID SCALE; SURFACE FLUX; SURFACE FLUX HETEROGENEITY; SYMMETRIC GEOMETRY; TURBULENCE KINETIC ENERGY; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; UPSLOPE FLOWS; VERTICAL DIRECTION; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUDGET CONTROL; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; KINETIC ENERGY; LANDFORMS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; SUBSIDENCE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND POWER;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; BOUNDARY LAYER; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; KINETIC ENERGY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MOMENTUM; MONIN-OBUKHOV THEORY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHY; TURBULENCE; WIND FORCING;

EID: 80755146207     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-010-9518-8     Document Type: Article

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