Statistical Variability of Dispersion in the Convective Boundary Layer: Ensembles of Simulations and Observations

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 185-210

  Weil, Jeffrey C ^a   Sullivan, Peter P ^b   Patton, Edward G ^b   Moeng, Chin Hoh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Concentration statistics; Convective boundary layer; Dispersion; Lagrangian particle model; Large eddy simulation; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION STATISTICS; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FLUCTUATING FIELDS; FLUCTUATION INTENSITY; LAGRANGIAN PARTICLE DISPERSION MODEL; LAGRANGIAN PARTICLE MODEL; LAGRANGIAN STOCHASTIC MODELS; LOWER BOUNDS; NEAR-SURFACE; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; PLUME DISPERSION; ROOT MEAN SQUARES; SIMILARITY THEORY; STATISTICAL VARIABILITY; SUBFILTER SCALE; SURFACE SOURCES; SURFACE VALUES; VELOCITY FIELD; VERTICAL DISPERSION;

DISPERSION (WAVES); LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY;

DISPERSIONS;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; DISPERSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARTICLE MOTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UPDRAFT; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

SANDFLY FEVER SICILIAN VIRUS;

EID: 84866002141     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-012-9704-y     Document Type: Article

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