Outlier Problem in Evaluating Similarity Functions in the Stable Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 137-155

  Grachev, Andrey A ^a   Andreas, Edgar L ^b   Fairall, Christopher W ^c   Guest, Peter S ^d   Persson, P Ola G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bin averaging; Gradient based scaling; Outliers; Richardson number; Self correlation; SHEBA; Stable boundary layer

Indexed keywords

BIN-AVERAGING; GRADIENT BASED; OUTLIERS; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SELF-CORRELATION; SHEBA; STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER;

BINS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; MIXED CONVECTION;

STATISTICS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; GRADIENT ANALYSIS; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT FLUX; OUTLIER; RICHARDSON NUMBER;

EID: 84863113630     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-012-9714-9     Document Type: Article

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