A Large-Eddy Simulation Study of Water Vapour and Carbon Dioxide Isotopes in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 229-248

  Lee, Xuhui ^a   Huang, Jianping ^a,b,c   Patton, Edward G ^d  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Isotopes; Keeling plot; Kinetic fractionation; Land surface model; Large eddy simulation

Indexed keywords

CAPPING INVERSION; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC EXCHANGE; KEELING PLOTS; LAND SURFACE MODELS; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION MODELS; LEAF WATER; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; RELIABLE ESTIMATES; TURBULENT EDDY; WATER VAPOUR; WIND SPEED;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ISOTOPES; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; TROPOSPHERE; VAPORS;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; FRACTIONATION; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; SURFACE FLUX; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84865783509     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-011-9631-3     Document Type: Article

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