Observation of a Self-Limiting, Shear-Induced Turbulent Inversion Layer Above Marine Stratocumulus

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 131-143

  Katzwinkel, J ^a   Siebert, H ^a   Shaw, R A ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud top entrainment; Stratiform boundary layer cloud

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE HUMIDITY; AIR SPEED; ANISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; CLEAR AIR; ENERGY DISSIPATION RATE; ENGULFMENT; ENTRAINMENT VELOCITIES; FREE TROPOSPHERE; HIGH-RESOLUTION MEASUREMENTS; HORIZONTAL WINDS; LARGE EDDY; LAYER THICKNESS; LINEAR PROFILES; MARINE STRATOCUMULUS; MARINE STRATOCUMULUS CLOUDS; OBSERVATION SYSTEMS; OZMIDOV SCALE; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SHEAR LAYER; SHEAR PRODUCTION; TURBULENCE PROPERTIES; VERTICAL PROFILE;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BUOYANCY; CLOUDS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; WIND EFFECTS;

INVERSION LAYERS;

AEROSOL; AIRBORNE SURVEY; CLOUD COVER; ENTRAINMENT; INVERSION LAYER; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RICHARDSON NUMBER; STRATIFORM CLOUD; STRATOCUMULUS; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; VERTICAL PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84865955919     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-011-9683-4     Document Type: Article

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